The uprisg agast police was a major talyst the morn gay rights movement. Now, people om around the world are scendg on the cy to celebrate.
Contents:
- 50 YEARS LATER: HOW NYC'S STONEWALL RTS SPARKED THE MORN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
50 YEARS LATER: HOW NYC'S STONEWALL RTS SPARKED THE MORN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Their uprisg agast police was a major talyst the morn gay rights movement. Some of the people who were at the Stonewall Inn the night the historic gay bar was raid by police on June 28, 1969 gather for a photo shoot ont of the bar as New York Cy celebrat Pri Month on June 27, 2019 New York Cy.
"We have all experienced discrimatn one way or another, pecially wh the fight to gay rights.
"It's cril that Stonewall ntu to be that globalized symbol and ntu to lead the fight and stays at the foreont of the gay rights movement, " -owner Stacy Lentz said.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
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 riots new york *
Also at Stonewall on that fateful night was Mark Segal, and the experience turned him to an activist and founr of the Philalphia Gay News. Before the rts, homosexualy was mostly forced unrground. "A CBS News survey shows that two out of three Amerins look upon homosexuals wh disgt, disfort or fear, " one reporter says an old news clip.
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * gay riots new york *
Walter Cronke heard him, and CBS beme one of the first works to discs gay rights. That's why Stonewall ntu to provi a fom for activism and remas a landmark the gay liberatn movement. Earlier this month, NYPD missner Jam O'Neill livered a formal apology to the gay muny.