Editing Stonewall riots (section)

===Gay Activists Alliance===
Within six months of the Stonewall riots, activists started a citywide newspaper called ''Gay''; they considered it necessary because the most liberal publication in the city—''The Village Voice''—refused to print the word ''gay'' in GLF advertisements seeking new members and volunteers.{{sfn|Clendinen|1999|p=40}} Two other newspapers were initiated within a six-week period: ''Come Out!'' and ''Gay Power''; the readership of these three periodicals quickly climbed to between 20,000 and 25,000.{{sfn|Carter|2004|p=242}}{{sfn|Duberman|1993|p=235}}

GLF members organized several same-sex dances, but GLF meetings were chaotic. When Bob Kohler asked for clothes and money to help the homeless youth who had participated in the riots, many of whom slept in Christopher Park or Sheridan Square, the response was a discussion on the downfall of [[capitalism]].{{sfn|Carter|2004|p=220}} In late December 1969, several people who had visited GLF meetings and left out of frustration formed the [[Gay Activists Alliance]] (GAA). The GAA was to be more orderly and entirely focused on gay issues. Their constitution began, "We as liberated homosexual activists demand the freedom for expression of our dignity and value as human beings."{{sfn|Clendinen|1999|pp=50–51}} The GAA developed and perfected a confrontational tactic called a [[Zap (action)|zap]]: they would catch a politician off guard during a public relations opportunity and force him or her to acknowledge gay and lesbian rights. City councilmen were zapped and mayor John Lindsay was zapped several times—once on television when GAA members made up the majority of the audience.{{sfn|Carter|2004|pp=245–246}}

Police raids on gay bars did not stop after the Stonewall riots. In March 1970, deputy inspector Seymour Pine raided the Zodiac and 17 Barrow Street. An after-hours gay club with no liquor or occupancy licenses called The Snake Pit was soon raided and 167 people were arrested. One of them was [[Diego Viñales]], an Argentinian national so frightened that he might be [[deported]] as a homosexual that he tried to escape the police precinct by jumping out of a two-story window, impaling himself on a {{convert|14|in|cm|adj=on}} spike fence.{{sfn|Carter|2004|pp=238–239}} The ''New York Daily News'' printed a graphic photo of the young man's impalement on the front page. GAA members organized a march from Christopher Park to the Sixth Precinct in which hundreds of gay men, lesbians, and liberal sympathizers peacefully confronted the TPF.{{sfn|Carter|2004|p=242}} They also sponsored a letter-writing campaign to Mayor Lindsay in which the Greenwich Village [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and congressman [[Ed Koch]] sent pleas to end raids on gay bars in the city.{{sfn|Teal|1971|pp=106–108}}

The Stonewall Inn lasted only a few weeks after the riot. By October 1969 it was up for rent. Village residents surmised it was too notorious a location and Rodwell's boycott discouraged business.{{sfn|Carter|2004|p=252}}