This eruption also signaled how activism at gay bars would be at the forefront of the movement from the perspective of both the homosexual population and police community. This riot revealed intense tensions between the police and the homosexual community, which represented a traditional conflict between the homosexual minority and the heterosexual public. The renowned riot at the gay bar Stonewall Innin 1969 has been recognized as the start of the modern homosexual political movement (Duberman, 1993, p.