In the years following World War II, members of the LGBTQ community faced broad discrimination - from strict laws that oppressed them, churches that declared their very existence sinful, and a government that demonized them.
But the famed resistance in New York capped a movement that had been building for nearly two decades in America, as LGBTQ people mobilized to fight widespread and pervasive discrimination. The protest marked a turning point in the gay rights movement.
In the summer of 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn sparked a riot on the streets of Greenwich Village.
