Three police officers kept a tight rein on a crowd to keep them on the sidewalks and off the streets at the corner of Waverly Place and Christopher Steet, half a block from the Stonewall Inn. The image was shot by Times photographer Larry Morris on the evening of Wednesday, July 2, 1969, five nights after a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a nightclub on Christopher Street popular among gay men and lesbians, touched off the disturbances. The Stonewall uprising that began 40 years ago this month has come to be seen as a defining event in the development of the gay rights movement. (Larry Morris/The New York Times)