Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190629:11:49:00
Decades later as discriminatory and oppressive. >> if you were a feminine or you were dressed nonconforming your skmult sexuality at birth, you were arrested and tried to be humiliated. and that's what was happening that night. >> reporter: but the night of june 28th, 1969, the bar's patrons revolted. they fought back, refusing to comply with officers. >> someone threw a bottle from sheridan square park into christopher street. >> reporter: that was the start of a night that would galvanize the modern-day lgbtq civil rights movement. >> 75 people moved forward and blocked the police. obviously...
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