"Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World"

"Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World"

An account of the Stonewall Riots entitled "Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World" written by Dick Leitsch, President of the Mattachine Society in 1969.

One of the most well known written accounts of the Stonewall riot, with details and description that ultimately became accepted as part of the Stonewall narrative. The account only briefly describes the first night of the bar raid at Stonewall Inn and continues with more detail about the following evening and the organized effort to demonstrate and protest in the streets around Sheridan Square and Christopher Park. This account was distributed by Mattachine in the days following the first weekend of unrest. "Hairpin drop" was a slang term for letting people know you are gay through a subtle hint.

Dick Leitsch

LGBT Community Center National History Archive. Bob Kohler Collection #110.

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1969

Dick Leitsch

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Bob Kohler Collection #110 of the LGBT Center National History Archive. Box 1, Folder 17.

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