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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.
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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.