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Rewind: Stonewall 50: Episode 2: "Everything Clicked… And the Riot Was On"

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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Escalation and Retaliation

This chapter describes the escalation of the Stonewall Riots, with protesters using a parking meter as a battering ram and the gay community retaliating with burning garbage and Molotov cocktails. The police panic and draw their guns, but someone from inside the bar opens the door with a gun, causing people to stay back.

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