The Stonewall uprising was explicitly understood as retaliation for earlier Movement confrontations

Evidence

Rat saw Stonewall as more than an uprising of oppressed gay men. It was payback for Grand Central, Columbia, and Chicago. Moreover, it was leaderless. “Strangely,” Rat noted “no one spoke to the crowd or tried to direct the insurrection.” (No President!) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1461

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ‘No President’ title concept and the broader New Left/underground press history of the era covered elsewhere in this book.