>In the wee hours of June 28, 1969, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, gave rise to a series of riots that fueled the LGBT rights movement
All the gay bars were mob controlled and owned. Stonewall was a Fed raid on the mob - 6th precinct was on the take and not notified of the Fed action. Hence the mayhem. . .