The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for stirring the LGBT movement. This emerging movement LGBT movement is also regarded as an offshoot of other sociopolitical movements and ideologies like gender equality and feminism, African-American civil rights, and anti-war sentiments.

Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Sociological Association, the Lutheran Church, and the American Bar Association had voiced out their strong opposition against anti-LGBT laws.

However, although a more widespread movement did not emerge immediately from the riots, the climate around that time was largely tolerating.

A more visible American LGBT movement emerged from the Stonewall Riots that transpired in New York beginning 28 June 1969.