He eventually received an apology from the Central Police Division Headquarters – an unheard-of concession from the local authorities. Enraged by the events, he looked into Singapore's legislation and found that the police had no authority to do so, prompting him to write a letter to the police and gather 21 signatories. According to gay lawyer Wilfred Ong, who was at the scene, his friends were detained without their identity cards and with no evidence of wrongdoing. In 1993, plainclothes police officers carried out a raid of Rascals at Pan Pacific Hotel on a regular Sunday gay disco night. Veteran gay activists here call a similar incident 'Singapore's Stonewall'. A year later, the first pride parade was organised to mark the first anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. As noted by the Library of Congress, LGBT Pride Month is.
In the next few weeks and months, activist organisations sprung up in the city to establish safe and social spaces for gay men and lesbian women. The month of June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month). While raids were not uncommon, patrons on that night fought back, leading to more widespread protests that continued for days. On June 28 1969, police raided gay bar Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village Neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York. June marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, a series of demonstrations by members of the gay community in New York City that led to the Gay Liberation Movement.
