Fast facts about the Stonewall Riot

The first riots lasted for days. The riot was hardly reported by the papers. Stonewall Riot were mostly carry by word of mouth.

The small article that was written by the The New York Times reference to rioters as Queens.

There are hardly no photographs of the riots -the papers not feel it was appropriate to photography the rioters. They had no such problems photographing patrons was they being arrested from bars.

The police used many small excuses for harassing the Stonewall Inn-the night of riots they claims the Stonewall Inn was serving drinks in dirty glasses.

Police harassment and arrests were common the gay patrons carried phony ID's so if they were arrested there real name would not be printed.

There is no one thing that set off the rioters, instead it was accumulation of years of
harassment. It is widely believe that Judy Garland death a few days before may have contributed to emotional state of the rioters.