00:00We knew that something was happening that night that hadn't happened before, and that
00:19was momentous.
00:20This was a moment for gay people to stand up to the authorities, and that this had changed
00:28everything.
00:39I had been out to dinner that night, and again, like I normally did, I'd walk past the stone
00:44wall on my way home, and my partner and I, Craig Rodwell, we were walking back, and we
00:50could see a crowd formed in front of the stone wall.
00:53We learned that there were people being held inside, and some people said that there had
00:57already been some violence committed by the police against some of the patrons.
01:01The crowd continued to grow, and now that things had been thrown, there was more violence
01:14expressed at that point.
01:19The police were trapped inside the building.
01:23They couldn't leave.
01:24They had to wait for reinforcements.
01:26When they came, that's when the riot really got underway.
01:53It said, get the cops and the mafia out of gay bars.
01:56There was quite a crowd, of course.
01:59When the nighttime came, the police responded, but this time they came with what was called
02:04then the Tactical Patrol Force, which was a specialized unit for dealing with riots.
02:14Their way of dealing with riots was basically to wait in and fight, so it created the second
02:21night of rioting.
02:37We had told the police, in applying for a permit, that we were going to have a march,
02:44and they said, well, you can only have a march if you have a permit.
02:46We said, no, we understand the permitting process, but you need to understand that we'll
02:51have a march whether you give us a permit or not.
03:14You worried?
03:16I think we'll succeed, but I think there's still a fight to come.
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