Editing Stonewall riots (section)

===Leaflets, press coverage, and more violence===
[[File:New York Mattachine Society Newsletter - Front Cover August 1969.jpg|thumb|August 1969 Mattachine Society newsletter, covering the events]]
Activity in Greenwich Village was sporadic on Monday, June 30, and Tuesday, July 1, partly due to rain. Police and Village residents had a few altercations, as both groups antagonized each other. Craig Rodwell and his partner [[Fred Sargeant]] took the opportunity the morning after the first riot to print and distribute 5,000 leaflets, one of them reading: "Get the Mafia and the Cops out of Gay Bars." The leaflets called for gay people to own their own establishments, for a boycott of the Stonewall and other Mafia-owned bars, and for public pressure on the mayor's office to investigate the "intolerable situation".{{sfn|Duberman|1993|p=205}}{{sfn|Teal|1971|pp=8–9}}

Not everyone in the gay community considered the revolt a positive development. To many older homosexuals and many members of the Mattachine Society who had worked throughout the 1960s to promote homosexuals as no different from heterosexuals, the display of violence and effeminate behavior was embarrassing. [[Randy Wicker]], who had marched in the first gay picket lines before the White House in 1965, said the "screaming queens forming chorus lines and kicking went against everything that I wanted people to think about homosexuals{{nbsp}}... that we were a bunch of drag queens in the Village acting disorderly and tacky and cheap."{{sfn|Duberman|1993|p=207}} Others found the closing of the Stonewall Inn, termed a "sleaze joint", as advantageous to the Village.{{sfn|Duberman|1993|p=206}}

On Wednesday, however, ''The Village Voice'' ran reports of the riots, written by Howard Smith and Lucian Truscott, that included unflattering descriptions of the events and its participants: "forces of faggotry", "limp wrists" and "Sunday fag follies".<ref name="Truscott">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uuwjAAAAIBAJ&pg=6710,4693&dq=stonewall+inn&hl=en|title=Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square|last=Truscott|first=Lucian|date=July 3, 1969|work=The Village Voice|page=1|access-date=June 20, 2010}}</ref>{{refn|group=note|Carter (p. 201) attributes the anger at ''The Village Voice'' reports to its focus on the effeminate behavior of the participants, with the exclusion of any kind of bravery. Author Edmund White insists that Smith and Truscott were trying to assert their own heterosexuality by referring to the events and people in derogatory terms.}} A mob descended upon Christopher Street once again and threatened to burn down the offices of ''The Village Voice,'' which at the time was headquartered several buildings west of the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street; that proximity gave Truscott and other writers for the newspaper first hand observations of the uprising. Also in the mob of between 500 and 1,000 were other groups that had had unsuccessful confrontations with the police and were curious how the police were defeated in this situation. Another explosive street battle took place, with injuries to demonstrators and police alike, local shops getting looted, and arrests of five people.{{sfn|Duberman|1993|pp=208–209}}{{sfn|Carter|2004|pp=203–205}} The incidents on Wednesday night lasted about an hour and were summarized by one witness: "The word is out. Christopher Street shall be liberated. The fags have had it with oppression."{{sfn|Carter|2004|p=205}}