The Stonewall Uprising, which is also referred to as the "Stonewall Riots" or the "Stonewall Rebellion," is a series of demonstrations led by trans Women of Color and lesbians against a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Collins (2019) writes: "On a micro level, the Stonewall raid represented an attack on LGBTQ people’s right to be themselves in public... on a macro level, the raid represented the criminalization of queer identities. LGBTQ people were not just detained for going out in public. They were often imprisoned for what they did in private... Stonewall and other fights of the 1960s weren’t just fights for social acceptance—they were fights for the right to live."

The uprising is widely considered a central catalyzing event that leads to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States.