The Stonewall’s path from illicit dive to national monument

Pride flags adorn the Stonewall Inn bar in New York’s Greenwich Village on June 3, marking the site of 1969 riots that followed a police raid of the bar’s gay patrons. Long gone from the Stonewall, he recently launched a website to highlight Pisano’s role in maintaining what would later become a National Historic Landmark and part of the first national monument to LGBTQ rights. Former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who tried in 2013 to become the city’s first female and first openly gay mayor, remembers a rally at the Stonewall as a very meaningful “moment about aspirations and potential” in a campaign that ended at the Democratic primary days later. The Gay Officers Action League, which counts hundreds of active members in the New York Police Department and other nearby law enforcement agencies, holds its monthly meetings in the Stonewall’s upstairs room.