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Jun 24, 2019 · In this Sunday, June 26, 2016, photo, a police officer applauds as parade-goers shout and wave flags during the New York City Pride Parade, in New York City. June is LGBT Pride Month, commemorating the Stonewall riots, which occurred in June 1969 following a New York Police Department raid of gay patrons at The Stonewall Inn. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Jun 26, 2020 · The Stonewall Inn is the very first LGBT National Historic Landmark in history. The Stonewall riots were a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Its participants ...
May 17, 2021 · The Stonewall Riot began when a drag queen, bereft by the death of Judy Garland, threw a brick at a police officer. The riot culminated in a Rockettes-style kickline of drag queens facing down ...
Jun 28, 2019 · The Stonewall Inn is a sacred place for many in the LGBTQ community. In 1969, a raid and series of riots outside the New York City bar helped launch a civil rights movement.
May 31, 2019 · May 31, 2019 6:17 PM EDT. A lot has changed for LGBTQ Americans in the 50 years since June 28, 1969, when an uprising in response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan’s ...
1969 Stonewall Riots. Ada Bello. Cuban-American chemist and lesbian activist. Philadelphia, PA Ada Bello was born into a middle-class family in 1933 in Havana, Cuba ...
Stonewall Riots. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn exploded into a riot when patrons of the LGBT bar resisted arrest and clashed with police. The Stonewall Riots are widely considered to be the start of the LGBT rights movement in the United States.
