>The Pridelets Files for June 27
> On this day in 1969, nine plainclothes policeman enter the Stonewall
>Inn at 53 Christopher Street intending to shut down the bar for
>operating without a liquor license. They arrest a bartender, doorman,
>and three transvestites and then try to leave. The key word here being
>"try." An angered crowd begins throwing bricks, bottles and even coins
>at the officers who retreat into the Stonewall. The mob breaks down the
>door, screaming "PIGS!" and "FAGGOT COPS!" One terrified officer tells
>them "We'll shoot the first motherfucker that comes through." Protesters
>then try and set the bar ablaze, while the cops bash one protester in
>the head a dozen times. Things finally calm down after about forty-five
>minutes, but the gay rights movement will never be the same.