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Laws against people of the same sex dancing together or wearing clothing made for the opposite sex were used as justification to arrest patrons. The conflict lasted into the next day as more and more people joined the riots from around the Village as word spread.

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No items found. When they arrived at Stonewall, the police locked the doors so that no one could escape as they conducted arrests. One cornerstone of her work included pressuring the American Psychiatric Association to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder.

As certain patrons were released, they joined a large crowd that had been gathering outside the bar. Finally inthe Association announced its removal of the classification and invited Gittings to the meeting. At the time, most depictions of gay men and women in mainstream media were found in salacious newspaper and tabloid articles, all of them reported from a murky distance.

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Sometimes the arrangement meant that patrons would be forewarned of a pending raid in time to change their clothing and stop dancing. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Then the fight spilled into the street, with a crowd gathering to back up the patrons under siege, resulting in a riot that lasted at least two days.

Gitings was an activist in both the pre-Stonewall homophile movement of the 50s and 60s and the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement.

Homosexuality in the 1960s : This decade was a pivotal time

InGittings organized a panel on homosexuality along with an anonymous psychiatrist who was masked and used a voice modulator. Those chosen for arrest started resisting the police officers with the encouragement of the jeering crowd. Share This Year. Violence broke out and the crowd overwhelmed police, who were forced to call in reinforcements.

"Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny leading the picket line" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Stonewall Rebellion Marks Turning Point. It is the first gay and lesbian organization in the state, and is one of the first gay and lesbian college student-led groups in the country, the first being the Student Homophile League at Columbia, founded in Article • Pride Through the Decades Pride in the 's Stonewall National Monument Pictures from the "Annual Reminders".