This article in the June 20 New York Times offers a useful assortment of acts of resistance across the United States (and not just in big cities) to oppressive homophobic laws from the 1960s to the 1980s. Lillian Faderman covers most of them in The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, but several were completely new to me.
Did you know, for example, in Columbus, Ohio, David Zimmer, Orn Huntington and others organized an annual Halloween drag ball in 1964?
Or that Manonia Evans and Donna Burkett applied for a marriage license in Milwaukee in 1971?
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