The was a time in American when same sex couples could be arrested for dancing together in public, when women could be arrested for wearing suits that had been manufactured for men. Through out the paranoid fifties and well into the sixties, gay bars were both refuges and targets, and they were regularly seldom justifiably raided by jeering police. On June 27, 1969, police burst into the stonewall in New York's Greenwich Village. Five gay bars nearby had been raided over the previous week, and now the stonewall's clientele rose up in defiant anger, shouting, hurling furniture at the police, and refusing to leave. The standoff lasted all weekend, at the end of which the bar was a charred ruin. But the gay pride movement was born. In the wake of what is now known as the stonewall Rebellion, myriad solidarity , support, and activist organizations sprang into being. Gay historians now cite two distinct eras: Before stonewall and After Stonewall.
Gay Freedom Day, Usually observed on the weekend nearest June 27, is a time for reflection, reunion, and renewed dedication not to mention dazzling parades.
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