n the early hours of 28 June 1969, police violently raided the Stonewall Inn and roughly hauled employees and patrons outside before being met with resistance from members of the community who had enough and started to fight back. “Those who had been in New York for a while had seen many raids,” says Mark Segal, an LGBTQ+ activist who took part in the uprising. “They'd never seen anything like this.” The event is largely seen as the watershed moment that advanced the LGBTQ+ community’s fight for civil rights, with the 71-year-old describing 1969 as “the pivotal year” in our shared history. “We learned to accept our own identity, and start fighting for what that identity is and to say to society, 'No, we're not that green eyed monster in the closet over there. We're going to be out, loud and proud.' Those three words, and self-identity, probably describe
