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New York City's first gay pride march, then called Christopher Street Liberation Day, was held on June 28, 1970, the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising.
English: The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT community against a police raid that took place on June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan, New York City.
1970s poster used by the US GLF. The United States Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was formed in the aftermath of the Stonewall Riots. The riots are considered by many to be the prime catalyst for the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. [4] [5]
The Stonewall Inn in the gay enclave of Greenwich Village; site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement and an icon of queer culture is adorned with rainbow pride flags. [1] [2] [3] New York state, a state in the northeastern United States, has one of the largest and the most prominent LGBTQ populations ...
On June 28, 1969, although not for the first time, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York City. During this time, in every state but Illinois, acts of ...
Rev. Magora Kennedy leads a worship service in Harlem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Now 81, Kennedy spoke about her decades of activism on behalf of LGBTQ ...
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, [3] or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
The Stonewall uprising was a series of spontaneous protests led by members of the gay community against the police, that took place at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, during June, 1969. The first riot began in response to a police raid of the bar in the early hours of June 28.