 More than 200 gay men socialized through the day.Drag queens were also involved in the Stonewall riots, a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.The riots are widely considered to be the catalyst for the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.