By the beginning of 1969, the Mattachine Society Inc. of New York, MSNY for short, could count on between 300 and 400 dues-paying members. Officially it was run by a board of directors and a slate of annually elected officers. But its reigning power was the former three-term president who in the spring of 1968 had become its meagerly paid ($37.50 a week) but ever-more-professional executive director. He was a 33-year-old son of Louisville, Kentucky named Dick Leitsch. At the end of 1968, Leitsch had moved MSNYÕs offices from their long-time home at 1133 Broadway in lower Manhattan to a vacated dentistÕs suite on the ground floor of 243 West End Avenue on the Upper West Side. In addition to providing more space, this shift put his workplace close to where he lived with Bob Amsel, his twenty-something lover. After a year of working without pay as LeitschÕs assistant, in the spring of 1969, Amsel was elected president of the Mattachine Society. On Saturday June 28, with their offices open as usual, Leitsch and Amsel received telephone calls and visits from members eager to tell them about the previous nightÕs raid of the Stonewall Inn and its aftermath. That evening, and again on Sunday, they were down on Christopher Street to assess the situation firsthand. Early on Monday morning, Dick Leitsch received a telephone call from Michael Brown. Brown identified himself as a 28-year-old native of Los Angeles who had attended its San Fernando State College before moving to Manhattan and going to work for an interior space-planning firm based on Wall Street. After a fellow worker at the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade, continued on next page. Toby Marotta revisits Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, Toby Marotta Community Roots Archive, American push for civil rights for homosexuals, American push for civil rights for homophile movement, Stonewall grassroots drive for freedom, Stonewall grassroots drive for power, Stonewall grassroots drive for community. Tobymarotta.com and the Stonewall Riot, Tobymarotta.com and the gay liberation movement, Tobymarotta.com and a closer look at civil rights.