 At the Stonewall that night, Cruz saw the cops take the drag queens, the transgender people, and the butch lesbians to the police vans, plus the gay men who didn't have ID. And then a fight broke out. No one knows how it started, but this is what we do know. It was hot. It was the 1960s. And Chauncey says lots of people were standing up for their rights. The Stonewall attracted a lot of people of color, black and Puerto Rican people.