On the evening of June 27, 1969 a routine police raid on a homosexual bar, the Stonewall Inn, in New York City, NY’s Greenwich Village turned into what the New York Mattachine Society newsletter called “The Hairpin Drop Heard Round the World.” The gay liberationist movement, officially organized by the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), now had an historical marker for its birthplace. According to John D’Emilio, “(w)ord of the Stonewall riot and GLF spread rapidly among the networks of young radicals scattered across the country, and within a year gay liberation groups had sprung into existence on college campuses and in cities around the world” (1983:233).