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irisblue

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4. PBS-American Experience has a video here

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Sat Jun 28, 2025, 06:43 PM

Jun 2025

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall/

snip-"When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world."

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Todays date in 1969, the Stonewall riot broke out in NYC [View all] irisblue Jun 2025 OP

A Brief History of Storm DeLarverie, Stonewall's Suiting Icon irisblue Jun 2025 #1

From National Geographic irisblue Jun 2025 #2

The NatGeo article has a graphic of the LGBTQ gathering places pre 1950-2018 irisblue Jun 2025 #3

PBS-American Experience has a video here irisblue Jun 2025 #4

Columbus Ohis' Stonewall organization irisblue Jun 2025 #5

We are not going to go back or fade away as LGBTQA+community irisblue Jun 2025 #6

We are SO NEVER GOING BACK! NCgayguy Jun 2025 #8

Stonewall created a movement for the WORLD! NCgayguy Jun 2025 #7

::blush:: Thank you NCgayguy irisblue Jun 2025 #9

While, I don't remember the date, I DO remember it as an NYC'r. electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #10