Slowly, LGBTQ activism would emerge from out of the closet and onto the American scene. They would push back against the American Psychological Association, the FBI and finally, the courts. In the years following World War II, members of the LGBTQ community faced broad discrimination - from strict laws that oppressed them, churches that declared their very existence sinful, and a government that demonized them. But the famed resistance in New York capped a movement that had been building for nearly two decades in America, as LGBTQ people mobilized to fight widespread and pervasive discrimination. The protest marked a turning point in the gay rights movement. In the summer of 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn sparked a riot on the streets of Greenwich Village.
