stonewall

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The Stonewall Riots were the first time gay people in the US stood up against police brutality and discrimination in large numbers, and it is generally seen as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement in the US.

It depends what you mean by large numbers. Two years before the Stonewall riots there was the Black Cat riot in Los Angeles. Stonewall was certainly larger but it was not the first fightback as it is so often portrayed as. I think what really makes Stonewall important was not what actually happened but what everyone thought about it afterwards. It became a real turning-point because people thought/felt it was a turning-point.