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On Friday, crowds gathered outside the Stonewall Inn in defense of trans rights, and NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento was there. ISABELLA GOMEZ SARMIENTO, BYLINE: There's snow on the ground in New ...
A revered landmark for American gay rights activists, Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn has undergone several transformations in the decades since it was the focal point of a three-day riot in 1969.
Friday marks 50 years since the start of riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, where a police raid led to backlash that fueled the modern-day gay rights movement. In 1969, the NYPD had a ...
The Stonewall Inn is a sacred place for many in the LGBTQ community. In 1969, a raid and series of riots outside the New York City bar helped launch a civil rights movement. Back in the 1960s ...
The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, “a nonprofit committed to eliminating the social intolerance that impacts LGBTQ+ individuals,” and the Stonewall Inn released a statement Thursday ...
It was half of the Stonewall Inn, the gay dive bar where a 1969 police raid became a landmark moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement.Yet for much of the 55 years since, there has been little ...
The attack, one of several police are investigating, happened during LGBTQ Pride month, which occurs every year in June to commemorate the Stonewall Inn uprisings for LGBTQ rights, which began on ...
On June 28, 1969, rebellious queer bar patrons fought back against a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s West Village. The uprising wasn’t the first step in the ...
When cops raided New York gay bar Stonewall Inn more than half a century ago on June 28, 1969 their actions helped trigger an LGBTQ movement that revolutionized the lives of future generations.
The riots near the Stonewall Inn in 1969 are widely considered the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. On June 28, one of New York City’s historic subway stations in Lower Manhattan got ...