IMLA Celebrates Pride Month!
Posted
22 Jun 2021 in Commentary
Fifty-two years ago, just after midnight on June 28, 1969, eight officers with New York’s now-defunct Public Morals Squad descended on 53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. Their target was the Stonewall Inn, a well-known gay bar and safe haven for the LGBTQIA+ community. The infraction which brought them was an alleged violation of liquor laws. More than 200 patrons were lined up, required to produce identification, subjected to anti-gay slurs, and needlessly subjected to force. Police raids in gay bars were...