NEW YORK — It was half of the Stonewall Inn, the gay dive bar where a 1969 police raid became a landmark moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. Riot police showed up to clear the demonstrators away, but they kept regrouping and returning until about 4:30 a.m. During an interview inside the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Friday, June 21, …
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In June 2023, countries across the world celebrated Pride Month, set apart each year as a celebration of alternative sexual and gender identity. Known by many as the “Father of the Gay Rights Movement,” Frank Kameny founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., picketed the White House, contested the American Psychiatric Association’s categorization of homosexuality as a mental defect, and …
A visitor centre dedicated to telling the story of the LGBTQ rights movement will open next door to the Stonewall Inn, according to an announcement Tuesday by the nonprofit that will manage the centre in partnership with the National Park Service. The groundbreaking for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York City's Greenwich Village neighbourhood will take place …
For people looking to march for LGBTQ rights, the Reclaim Pride Coalition held its third Queer Liberation March from Bryant Park to the Stonewall National Monument and into Washington Square Park. New York: New York City’s annual LGBTQ Pride parade was held virtually for the second year in a row on 27 June due to the pandemic, but that didn’t …