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People gathered there somberly October 1998, after <a class="css-yywogo" href=" tle="">Matthew Shepard</a>, a 21-year-old gay stunt, was beaten, tortured and left to die Laramie, Wyo. And people danced and celebrated there last year when the Supreme Court clared marriage a right for all.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">But even the most battle-weary Stonewall vote said they were not prepared for the mass horror Orlando, Fla. — a <a class="css-yywogo" href=" tle="">shootg at a gay nightclub</a> that left at least 50 ad and 53 jured — that brought them together on Sunday at the storied Wt Village waterg hole to grieve once aga.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“We e today bee we are a muny that will never be silenced aga,” Ken Kidd, 58, an anizer wh Queer Natn, howled to a crowd outsi.</p></div><asi class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="pann lumn"></asi></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompannColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Hundreds of people swarmed Christopher Street around 6 p.m. for a vigil, dazed by the events of the early morng and needg to e to a place that they said gave them strength and solace. They held aloft rabow banners, draped their arms around one another’s shoulrs and offered chant after chant of “No hate!” Watchg over them was a team of officers unterterrorism gear.</p></div><asi class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="pann lumn"></asi></div><div><div class="css-79elbk" data-ttid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div class="css-z3e15g" data-ttid="photoviewer-wrapper-hidn"></div><div data-ttid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><img alt="Joseph Lozada of the Bronx was overe by the sight of flowers ont of the Stonewall Inn on Sunday. Mr. Lozada had recently vised the club Orlando." class="css-r3fift" src=" srcSet=" 600w, 1024w, 2048w" siz="((m-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (m-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw" dg="async" width="600" height="400"/></div><figptn class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">Joseph Lozada of the Bronx was overe by the sight of flowers ont of the Stonewall Inn on Sunday. Mr. Lozada had recently vised the club Orlando.</span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Cred...</span><span><span aria-hidn="false">Michelle V. Ags/The New York Tim</span></span></span></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompannColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“In the good tim we’ve e here, the bad tim we’ve e here,” Brandon Coriro, 28, said. “What has always been te all those tim is we’ve stood together.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Long before the vigil began, dozens of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr New Yorkers met si the tavern to miserate as a muny.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">On Sunday, like so many before, Vny Milack-Carras arrived at the Stonewall Inn to spend time wh some of his clost iends. Before the buildg lay bouquets of flowers and a seri of handwrten rds dited to the victims of the massacre Orlando.</p></div><asi class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="pann lumn"></asi></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompannColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“Gay bars and clubs are supposed to be our safe haven,” said Mr. Milack-Carras, 48, a store manager om Brooklyn. “I’ve never felt threatened here, but now I’m lookg over my shoulr.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Ever sce the 1969 rebelln, Stonewall has bee the loc not only for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr New Yorkers, but also for <a class="css-yywogo" href=" tle="">people across the untry and the world</a> who crave the sense of belongg that is still not easy to fd many plac.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Over the last year or so, there were tim Stonewall had been filled wh joyo revelers celebratg ton they had long fought to atta — most notably a year ago, after the Supreme Court’s <a class="css-yywogo" href=" tle="">same-sex marriage lg</a>. More recently, more than 100 people <a class="css-yywogo" href=" tle="">attend a town-hall-style meetg</a> to support an iative aimed at turng Stonewall and s surroundg area to a natnal monument to the gay rights movement.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“This shootg opens up a lot of old wounds,” Ron Perry, 66, a retiree om TriBeCa, said as he stood Stonewall. “It brgs back memori of when vlence was regular at gay bars.”</p></div><asi class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="pann lumn"></asi></div><div><figure class="sizeMedium css-sx232s" aria-label="media" role="group" data-ttid="VioBlock"><div class="css-1xb94ky"><span class="css-1dv1kvn">Vio</span><div><div class="css-n27z15" style="paddg-bottom:56.25%"><div class="css-mm3pwi"><div class="css-1g7y0i5 e1drnplw0"><button tabx="100" class="css-1rtlxy" type="button" aria-label="close"><svg width="60" height="60" viewBox="0 0 60 60" fill="none"><circle cx="30" cy="30" r="30" fill="whe" fill-opacy="0.9"></circle><path fill-le="evenodd" clip-le="evenodd" d="M38.4844 20.1006L39.8986 21.5148L21.5138 39.8996L20.0996 38.4854L38.4844 20.1006Z" fill="black"></path><path fill-le="evenodd" clip-le="evenodd" d="M21.5156 20.1006L20.1014 21.5148L38.4862 39.8996L39.9004 38.4854L21.5156 20.1006Z" fill="black"></path></svg></button><div class="css-rdbib0 e1drnplw1"></div><div class="css-18ow4sz e1drnplw2"><div aria-labelledby="modal-tle" role="regn"><hear class="css-1bzlfz"><div class="css-mln36k" id="modal-tle">transcript</div><button type="button" class="css-1igvuto"><div class="css-f40pzg"></div><span>Back</span></button><div class="css-f6lhej" data-ttid="transcript-playback-ntrols"><div class="css-1ialerq"><button tabx="99" type="button" class="css-1t9gw" aria-label="play"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none"><path fill-le="evenodd" clip-le="evenodd" d="M8 13.7683V6L14.5 9.88415L8 13.7683Z" fill="var(--lor-ntent-sendary,#363636)"></path><circle cx="10" cy="10" r="9.25" stroke="var(--lor-stroke-primary,#121212)" stroke-width="1.5"></circle></svg></button><div class="css-1701swk"><svg xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 40 36" id="el_0kpS9qL_S"><tle>bars

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The Stonewall Inn, often referred to simply as Stonewall, is a gay bar and recreatnal pub the Greenwich Village area of New York Cy. It was...

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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. * gay stonewall inn *

For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U.

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Stonewall rts, seri of vlent nontatns that began the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outsi the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar the Greenwich Village sectn of New York Cy. As the rts progrsed, an ternatnal gay rights movement was born. * gay stonewall inn *

In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did. When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars.

And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi. Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para. ”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.

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”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.

STONEWALL INN NAMED NATNAL MONUMENT, A FIRST FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Police raids of gay bars the 50s and 60s were route but a raid on the Stonewall Inn did not go to plan and what followed effectively kick-started the morn LGBTQ civil rights movement. * gay stonewall inn *

Stonewall rts, also lled Stonewall uprisg, seri of vlent nontatns that began the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outsi the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar the Greenwich Village sectn of New York Cy. Olr groups such as the Mattache Society, which was found southern California as a discsn group for gay men and had flourished the 1950s, soon ma way for more radil groups such as the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). In addn to lnchg numero public monstratns to prott the lack of civil rights for gay dividuals, the anizatns often rorted to such tactics as public nontatns wh polil officials and the disptn of public meetgs to challenge and to change the mor of the tim.

The events durg that six-day perd are seen as a key turng pot and a talyst for explosive growth a gay rights movement that began the Uned Stat 1950 wh the foundg of the Mattache Society Los Angel.

The clud on at Cooper Do-Nuts Los Angel 1959; a fundraiser for the Council on Relign and the Homosexual San Francis 1965; a Dewey’s rtrant Philalphia, also 1965; San Francis’s Compton’s Cafeteria 1966; and the Black Cat Tavern Los Angel 1967. The unual reactn of the Stonewall’s patrons spurred the crowd outsi, which me to clu a diverse segment of the lol LGBT muny – homels LGBT teens, trans women of lor, lbians, drag queens, and gay men – as well as other rints of Greenwich Village and visors. Even before the 1969 Stonewall uprisg, Christopher Park was a favore hangout for a diverse group of (often homels) gay street youth and those who might intify today as queer, transgenr, or non-bary.

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

At the one-year anniversary, the first annual Christopher Street Liberatn Day March (later known as the Gay Pri March and then the LGBT Pri March) took place New York, wh siar events other ci the Uned Stat; the number of march expand ternatnally over the next few years.

AT STONEWALL INN, A GAY RIGHTS LANDMARK, A VIGIL PRI AND ANGER

Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay stonewall inn *

The nomatn, available the “Read More” sectn below, was wrten by Dolkart, wh Shockley, g, part, rearch om David Carter (who published his Stonewall: The Rts that Sparked the Gay Revolutn book 2004). Loted Greenwich Village at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, this gay bar and dance club was enclosed wh thick stone walls — remnants om s history as horse stabl that provid both s namake and a protective barrier om the outsi world that was, on the whole, unsupportive of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.

Generally thought of as a “safe place” for the LGBT muny, placloth police officers vad The Stonewall Inn on Friday, June 27, 1969 (the same day as the nearby Manhattan funeral of gay in entertaer/actrs/sger Judy Garland) and jt after 3 am on June 28, thgs turned vlent after a few LGBT people were arrted on qutnable charg, handcuffed and very publicly forced to police rs on the streets of New York Cy.

The Stonewall Inn was clared a Natnal Historic LandmarkOn the first anniversary of the Stonewall rebelln June 1970, the very first gay pri march was held Manhattan and sce then, lns of LGBT pri march, paras, piics, parti, ftivals, and symposia have taken place and June has been clared LGBT Pri Month to honor the 1969 Stonewall rts. History & CultureExplaerA June 1969 police raid of the New York bar epted to a days-long rebelln that l a fire unr the fight for LGBTQ 1969, police raids of gay bars Manhattan followed a template.

Other articl where Stonewall Inn is discsed: gay rights movement: The gay rights movement sce the mid-20th century: …of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, was raid by the police. Nearly 400 people joed a rt that lasted 45 mut and rumed on succeedg nights. “Stonewall” me to be memorated annually June wh Gay Pri celebratns, not only… * gay stonewall inn *

By the 1960s, homosexualy was clilly classified as a mental disorr, and most municipali the Uned Stat had discrimatory laws that forba same-sex relatnships and nied basic rights to anyone spected of beg gay. Loted Greenwich Village, the heart of gay life New York at the time, s patrons were among the most margalized members of New York’s LGBTQ muny—cludg unraged and unhoed dividuals, people of lor, and drag performers.

Des after the Stonewall Uprisg, Print Obama formally regnized the Greenwich Village bar’s role the history of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr civil rights movement. * gay stonewall inn *

The movement stoked by the police raid Greenwich Village soon spread to ci across the 1970, a year after the raid, activists led by Craig Rodwell memorated s anniversary wh what they lled Christopher Street Liberatn Day, now regnized as the first gay pri march. It tered to an assortment of patrons and was known to be popular among the poort and most margalized people the gay muny: drag queens, transgenr people, effemate young men, butch lbians, male prostut, and homels youth. When ps raid New York gay bar Stonewall Inn more than half a century ago on June 28, 1969 their actns helped trigger an LGBTQ movement that revolutnized the liv of future had already raid the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street that week, and this send time occurred the early hours of Saturday morng, when the venue was the LGBTQ movement nnot be directly traced to the events of that night, was certaly energized by what happened the hours and days after the Richards, Edw D.

"Police raids of gay bars the 1950s and 1960s ed to be route, volvg the threateng and beatg of ctomers and staff when police raid the Stonewall Inn the early hours of June 28, 1969 thgs did not go to plan, and what followed effectively kick-started the morn LGBTQ civil rights élie Gee, an expert LGBTQ history and an Associate Profsor at Wake Fort Universy School of Law, believ Stonewall has rightly "entered the LGBTQ history books. She told Newsweek: "Stonewall might have had grimy bathrooms and sold overpriced, watered-down drks, but was one of the few tablishments that weled gay men, lbians, transgenr dividuals and other genr nonnformists. "Newsweek has reported how versns of the famo rabow flags now play an important role durg Gay Pri march, as "they reprent a variety of different muni, such as trans muni and bisexual people had for many years faced social sanctn and legal harassment for their sexual orientatn, which had been crimalized on the pretexts of relign and 1960s even wnsed homosexualy reclassified as a mental disorr and most municipali the U.

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