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- GAY PRI FLAG ATTACKS MOUNT AMID ONLE CHALLENG BY EXTREMIST GROUPS
- SEE IT: GAY UPLE QUEENS VICTIMIZED THIRD YEAR A ROW AS VIO TCH PRI FLAG RIPPED OM HOME
GAY PRI FLAG ATTACKS MOUNT AMID ONLE CHALLENG BY EXTREMIST GROUPS
Dozens of flags celebratg the LGBTQ muny at New York Cy’s Stonewall Natnal Monument—the historic se of a 1969 uprisg often nsired the turng pot for the gay rights movement—were snapped two and thrown on the ground over the weekend, an cint unr vtigatn by a police hate crim un, followg a years-long uptick reported anti-LGBTQ crim. The vandalism ls than two weeks to Pri Month, an ternatnal month-long celebratn memoratg the Stonewall uprisg and honorg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer pri. New York Cy Council member Erik Bottcher, who is gay and reprents Stonewall’s district, tweeted about the cint over the weekend sayg, “If anyone thks this is gog to timidate or weaken our rolve, they’re mistaken.
The Stonewall Inn was the se of the Stonewall rts, or Stonewall uprisg, late June 1969, when the NYPD, on a route raid of the private gay club Greenwich Village, was met wh startlg fiance—leadg to days of protts Christopher Park and other neighborhoods. The rts are wily regnized as a talyst for the gay rights movement, and 2016, the bar and the park beme a natnal monument and the first un of the Natnal Park System dited to LGBTQ history. On June 15, officers rpond to another ll reportg vandalism, when aga several Pri flags that had been displayed were broken and torn down across the street om the Stonewall Inn — a place many nsir to be the birthplace of the gay rights movement.
Dozens of Pri flags were snapped to piec and thrown on the ground a troublg act of vandalism durg Pri Month at the Stonewall Natnal Monument — a memorial that celebrat a key moment the gay rights movement. If approved by the full Congrs, the bill uld force Stonewall Natnal Monument, an NPS se New York dited to tellg the story of the gay rights movement, to take down s Pri flags. It memorat the se of the rts at the Stonewall Inn that kicked off the morn gay rights movement on June 28, 1969.
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As employe waved rabow flags, the drag queen — Wyn Wiley, gog by the name Pattie Gonia — joked that “gay people are lerally takg over the Natnal Park System. As the issue gas more polil tractn for gay rights opponents, the Human Rights Campaign rpond June by clarg s first “state of emergency. Dpe the plats om Republins on Capol Hill, gay rights advot have been urgg more natnal parks to jo the Pri celebratns.
The new battl e at a key time for the gay rights movement. While a rerd high 71 percent of Amerins last year said they believed gay and lbian relatns were morally acceptable, that fell to 64 percent this year Gallup’s most recent Valu and Beliefs poll released June. Last month, his mpaign released a vio that cricized former Print Donald Tmp for his earlier ments on gay rights and Pri Month, llg him “the polician who did more than any other Republin to celebrate .
Gay rights backers say they’re ready to do more battle.