On this day forty years ago, the gay-rights movement was set in motion by the riots at Stonewall Inn in New York City. Had it not been for the brave drag queens and a new generation of angry gay men fed up with police harassment and oppression, people like me and many of this blog’s readers would still be forced to hide. The gay movement of today has many flaws, but at its core is still the very liberal idea that no state has the right to tell people whom to love and how to live as long as it does not infringe on other people’s equal rights.

Box Turtle Bulletin has more.

Wikipedia page on the riots here.