Allen Ginsburg wrote that certain people "Lost the wounded look they had ten years ago" after this.
Allen Ginsburg wrote that certain people "Lost the wounded look they had ten years ago" after this. This event, in which Dave Van Ronk was barricaded into its location, occured after the closing of the Checkerboard. Residents of Christopher Park were notably participants in it and these events mainly occured on Christopher Street. Activists in the aftermath of this event attacked the Village Voice for refusing to print a certain word and the first Pride Parade happened on the anniversary of this event.  For ten points, name these riots in Greenwich Village against homophobic policemen that are commonly considered the start of the gay rights movement, which happened in New York in 1969 .
Allen Ginsburg wrote that certain people "Lost the wounded look they had ten years ago" after this.
{Stonewall} Riots