A 1968 police raid on Fire Island changed the course of gay history.

View of "The Meat Rack" located on Fire Island Pines.(Image: Tim Fitzsimons / NBC News)

While the 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village is widely remembered as the beginning of the LGBTQ rights movement in America, another victory nearby on New York’s Fire Island also delivered an important legal victory for gay men exactly…