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