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Shunned by employers, rejected by heterosexual society. at the center of his life, he remains an outsider. >> i think gay men got sort of sick and tired of seeing the quote, unquote, revolution going on all around them while they were being vilified and kept completely to the margins. something is always going to light the spark, and it was about to happen somewhere. >> in june of 1969, the police staged a raid, just a routine raid on a gay bar, the stonewall inn in greenwich village in new york. and unlike a routine raid, in this case, men fought back. >> stonewall was a watershed moment in r...

Take to a democratic congress. then we'll get some more money. that's the suspicion. >> the idea that we would stunt for money is despicable beyond all belief. our reason for going into mt. carmel was we had obtained the evidence to get the warrant to do it and we were feeling these people were about to erupt. we don't trade lives for appropriations. >> by the end of february the atf is granted the search warrant for mt. carmel. preparations get under way for what should be a routine raid. >> what was supposed to happen on that saturday morning was that after their worship services the men wou...

Threaten, harass demean arrest and often abuse anyone who fit the profile. acting with impunity against a group with no political or social power. but on june 28th, 1969 the new york city police taepted a routine raid on a greenwich village bar, the stonewall inn. but instead of business as usual, police encountered people who had had enough. that night the people of stonewall fought back. men refused to produce i.d.s, gay teachers openly mocked the police performing kick lines in face of cops threatening to arrest them. the resistance became physical bottles flew fwirs burned when police barr...

Vilified and kept completely to the margins. something is always going to light the spark, and it was about to happen somewhere. >> in june of 1969, the police staged a raid, just a routine raid on a gay bar, the stonewall inn in greenwich village in new york. and unlike a routine raid, in this case, men fought back. >> stonewall was a watershed moment in really the development of civil rights for the lgbt community. within four years of stonewall,

What should be a routine raid. >> what was supposed to happen on that saturday morning was that after their worship services, the men would leave the building and proceed to the grounds to do their chores, which would leave them separated from the armory where the weapons were stored and give us an opportunity to get on the property and get between most of them and the women and children. but clearly the events on that saturday morning did not develop according to what we expected to develop. and at that point the operation should have been aborted. only thing we'd ever grown together was a re...