Eyewitness Accounts

You’ll find everything from first-person essays from Stonewall Rebellion participants to “you-are-there” narratives of meetings to eyewitness reports of historic events and more here.

Follow the links for each title to read the story.

  1. Police raid on the Stonewall Bar, June 28, 1969, and the events on the streets afterward, by Mark Segal.

  2. The genesis of the Pride March: Proposing the march at the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO) in 1969, by Ellen Broidy.

  3. Occupation of NYU’s Weinstein Hall: account of 5-day protest by Ellen Broidy

  4. GLF vs. the Mafia: Martha Shelley’s account of an action at Gianni’s, a lesbian bar in the Village

  5. How GLF Burst into the World: Martha Shelley’s account of the origin and naming of GLF

  6. Picketing the Time-Life Building: Ellen Broidy’s account of this November 1969 demonstration

  7. A Hot Night in the West Village to Washington D.C. : an account of several actions by Perry Brass

  8. Protesting the Police Raid on the Snakepit: An Excerpt from Allen Young’s autobiography, Left, Gay & Green: A Writer’s Life.