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Stonewall riots

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Stonewall riots

(June 28, 1969) Series of violent confrontations between police and gay rights activists in New York City. In response to the second raid in a week by police on the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village that had been selling liquor without a license, about 1,000 transvestites, gays, and lesbians taunted police and threw debris; police responded with violence. Similar riots occurred on succeeding nights and were followed by protest rallies. The event marked the awakening of gay rights organizations throughout the U.S.; it is commemorated annually in Gay and Lesbian Pride Week. In 1999 the U.S. National Park Service placed the Stonewall Inn on the National Register of Historic Places. See also gay rights movement.



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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City On June 27, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a little bar in New York City''s Greenwich Village This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City.
Full Circle It was almost as if the Fort Worth cops had read their gay history and wanted to make an especially egregious statement at the exact moment of the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots on June 28, 1969.
But 40 years after the Stonewall riots -- an uprising started at a New York City bar of the same name -- launched the gay liberation movement worldwide, New York has yet to pass legislation legalizing same-sex marriage.
 
 
 
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