friday night, june 28th, 1969, the lights were low. music was loud. and the dance floor packed. the diversity of the people who were at stonewall ranking from street kids, people dressed in scare drag, the guys in khakis and button-down shirts. you had the drag queens come on the dance floor who were controlling the jukebox. across the street from the stonewall, unnoticed in christopher park, undercover nypd cops seymour pine and charles smythe of the public morals division were staking out the bar. pine and charles smythe were charged with enforcing censorship, pornography, and closing legal bars. the detectives leading the team closed in on the stonewall. smythe and pine, along with police agents, knocked on the bar saying, we re here, open the door, we re the police.
houses down from stonewall bar. it was hot and humid. but no breeze. you expected something to happen that particular night because the air was really, really heavy. at the stonewall inn on friday night, june 28th, 1969, the lights were low. music was loud. and the dance floor packed. the diversity of the people who were at stonewall ranking from street kids, people dressed in scare drag, the guys in khakis and button-down shirts. you had the drag queens come on the dance floor who were controlling the jukebox. across the street from the stonewall, unnoticed in christopher park, undercover nypd cops seymour pine and charles smythe of the public morals division were staking out the bar. pine and charles smythe were charged with enforcing censorship, pornography, and