Mark Segal: Stonewall Lasted 365 Days
From LGBTQ&A
Mark Segal moved to New York City in May of 1969 and a month later found himself at The Stonewall Inn as the now-infamous police raid began. "The police came in, pretended that they were doing their duty, got their pay off," he says. "The difference here was they barged in, they threw people up against the wall, they extorted money from some of the older people, they harassed the drag queens. It was pretty violent." Stonewall sparked Mark Segal's lifelong commitment to activism, which memorabl