Stonewall Uprising began on June 28 in 1969 after police that day raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in Manhattan.Homosexuality at the time was considered a criminal offense throughout New York State, with many gay bars were owned by the mafia and operated without a liquor license, according to the Library of Congress.Police raids and harassment occurred frequently across the U.S.
at the time and members of the LGBTQ community began to fight back amid growing activism in the 1960s.Stonewall Inn had been raided frequently ahead of the uprising, but the June 28 raid led to a series of demonstrations that lasted six days."It was not the first time police raided a gay bar, and it was not the first.