In June 1969 homosexuals at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, tired of harassment by police, fought back and set off five days of confrontations. Their activism did much to arouse group consciousness among the gay population. In 1973 the National Organization for Women, which had previously disdained lesbians (Friedan referred to them as the "lavender menace") endorsed gay rights.4 In 1974 the American Psychiatric Association removed homo-sexuality from its list of psychological disorders.
