Print Barack Obama is preparg to signate the Stonewall Inn New York the first natnal monument dited to gay rights.
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- “BY THE TIME OF HAD 50 TO 60 GAY GROUPS THE UNTRY. A YEAR LATER...1500.”
- OBAMA TO NAME STONEWALL 1ST NATNAL MONUMENT FOR GAY RIGHTS
“BY THE TIME OF HAD 50 TO 60 GAY GROUPS THE UNTRY. A YEAR LATER...1500.”
Stonewall Natnal Monument is the first LGBTQ natnal monument, dited to the birthplace of the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer… * national gay monument *
“By the time of had 50 to 60 gay groups the untry. Before the 1960s, almost everythg about livg openly as a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal.
lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer civil rights June 24, 2016, Stonewall Natnal Monument was tablished as the 412th un of the Natnal Park. Cy police nducted a raid, a scenar that had bee route at gay bars and often rulted harassment and. Wh two years, LGBTQ people across the untry had formed gay rights groups almost every major.
The 1969 rts at the Stonewall Inn lnched the morn gay rights movement and the annual New York Cy pri para. Now the Greenwich Village bar where many New York gather to prott and celebrate civil rights victori is poised to bee the first-ever natnal monument to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights.
OBAMA TO NAME STONEWALL 1ST NATNAL MONUMENT FOR GAY RIGHTS
* national gay monument *
In the early morng of June 28, 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn–a typil occurrence at gay bars the 1960s–turned vlent when patrons fought back. Followg several arrts that morng, people ntued to prott outsi the bar for weeks afterward, leadg to the first march for gay and lbian rights July. “Not only did gay people stand up for their rights, they stood up for them the streets.
The new effort clus a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) Herage Iniative, lnched 2014, to intify plac and events associated wh the story of LGBTQ Amerins for cln the park service. Once ed to intify gay men Nazi ncentratn mps, the pk triangle has been reclaimed as a symbol of LGBTQ pri, rilience, and ristance.
He was one of tens of thoands of gay men victimized unr Brish law. Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Unr NazismBerl, GermanyThoands of gay men were imprisoned ncentratn mps Nazi Germany, where many died of disease, starvatn, torture, and targeted killgs. Travel tip: Don’t fet a trip to the Schwul Mm (Gay Mm) for an extensive look at Berl’s queer Legacy WalkChigo, Illois Stretchg half a e across the North Halsted rridor, the Legacy Walk is an outdoor history mm showsg signifint moments LGBTQ history.