Lindsay Graham
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Around two thousand people would flood Christopher Street and the West Village until the very early hours of the morning.
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Rodwell later remembered, that Saturday night was the first time in history there was a general assertion of anger by gay people, a public assertion of real anger that was just electric.
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Miss Major Griffin Gracie, a black transgender woman who was knocked out by police and arrested on Friday night, remembered the subsequent nights as absolute terror.
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It didn't just happen that one day, because people were fed up.
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The country was in an uproar over the war, over the treatment of blacks, over the treatment of women.
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Everybody wanted their piece of whatever the American dream was at that time.
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And our community and the gays and lesbians were no different, and so it was just a feeling of, well,
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Well goddamn it, tonight we're gonna do something.
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But alongside the anger, there was something else.
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Pride.
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Voices shouted Christopher Street belongs to the Queen's
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And in a sense it did.
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At least Saturday evening.
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Crowds continued to return to Christopher Street for the next four days, demonstrating nearly each night in front of the Stonewall Inn.
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But once the dust had settled, it was clear that one era of gay rights activism was ending and another just beginning.
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Craig Rodwell quickly began circulating flyers, stating that the Friday and Saturday night riots would go down in history as a turning point.
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Rodwell also called for young people to take up the cause.
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Now was the time they had momentum.
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But Rodwell's forward looking rallying cry fell on deaf ears amongst older, more conservative segments of the gay community.
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The stonewall demonstrations drove a generational wedge between the spirit of the youthful activists on Christopher Street and the cautious assimilationist approach of groups like Matachin and its overwhelmingly white leadership.
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