June 28, 1969. Forty years ago today, police invaded the Stonewall Inn to serve a warrant on the popular gay bar for serving alcohol without a license, and the patrons of the bar decided they’d had enough with the excessive forces of the police against them, and fought back. After the days of rioting subsided, a new sense of purpose was born, and the gay movement as we know it came to be. Here’s to Stonewall! We’ve come so far in the past 40 years, and we’ve still got a ways to go.
