Nearly 50 years after a police raid at the Stonewall Inn catalyzed the modern LGBTQ rights movement, New York’s police commissioner apologized Thursday for what his department did.
The Stonewall Inn in New York was the site of 1969 riots that launched the gay rights movement.
The apology comes weeks ahead of the milestone anniversary of the raid and the rebellion it sparked in the early hours of June 28, 1969, as patrons and others fought back against officers and a social order that kept gay life in the shadows. Organizers of an alternative Stonewall anniversary march, however, see no such thing. They called O’Neill’s comments an “empty apology” made under pressure.
LGBTQ people could be subject to arrest for showing affection, dancing together, even for not wearing a certain number of items deemed gender-appropriate. Bars that served gay people had at times lost their liquor licenses, and others — like the Stonewall — were simply unlicensed. Raids were common.
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