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Dewey’s Lunch Counter Sit-In, Philadelphia – April 25, 1965 Dewey’s was a chain of hamburger joints in Philadelphia, and the location near Rittenhouse Square was

ECHO White House Demonstration, D.C. – April 17, 1965 Less than a dozen demonstrators picketed the White House in the first in a series of

Black Cat Protests, Los Angeles – February 11, 1967 On New Year’s Day 1967, undercover cops raided the Black Cat Tavern in Silver Lake, brandishing

Council on Religion and the Homosexual Ball, San Francisco – January 1, 1965 Established in 1964 to foster a dialogue between clergy and gays, the

Patch Riot, Los Angeles – August 17, 1968 In 1964, Life magazine reported that the LAPD was on a “anti-homosexual drive” to stop gays from

Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, San Francisco – August, 1966 In the 1960s Gene Compton’s cafeteria in San Francisco’s seedy Tenderloin neighborhood was one of the few

The Independence Hall “Annual Reminders,” Philadelphia – July 4, 1965 Four years before Stonewall, Frank Kameny, Barbara Gittings and 38 other activists picketed outside Philadelphia’s