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The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement.

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GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, a seri of protts led by members of the LGBT activist muny rponse to police raidg the Greenwich Village, New York, gay bar the Stonewall Inn. In the terveng years, “Stonewall” has bee shorthand for a turng pot the battle for LGBTQ rights, a moment when an entire muny rose up to mand an end to anti-gay discrimatn. The teractive monument, which walks visors though the history of the gay pri movement, allows people anywhere the world to vis the historic se; most notably, featur archival imag om LGBT history and terviews wh proment LGBT activists like Melissa Sklarz and Dick Lesch.

The terviews trace the trajectory of LGBT history New York om the early days of the Mattache Society, a pre-Stonewall gay rights group found 1950, to the pre-Stonewall rebellns at var gay bars throughout the Uned Stat, such as the 1967 Black Cat tavern protts Los Angel, through the first years of Pri, and to the morn LGBTQ movement. In the face of the ntug jtic, Pri should stand as an important remr that the homophobic and transphobic sentiments of the past ntue to trickle to our liv. But their stori have equently been erased, wh cisgenr gay whe men posned as the fac of the movement stead.

This flag was subsequently met wh tense ntroversy, particularly by whe gay men who vehemently opposed addg new lors to the rabow symbol.

The Internatnal Homomonument, a monument that honors people persecuted for their sexual orientatn, was vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. * stone wall gay pride *

“I’m gay, but I’m also cis and whe. For one month, beg homophobic or transphobic is strictly forbidn. The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy.

The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world.

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