Appreciation thread for the men and women at Stonewall who said "Enough."

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17. I do hope there are those who were there

at Stonewall heard it mentioned in PBO's speech today! I read a Loud Cheer went up in the Mall!

Barack Obama's Stonewall moment: an inaugural landmark for gay equality

The best inaugural addresses of presidents past can be reduced to a single phrase or line: "With malice toward none, with charity for all …" (Lincoln); "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" (Roosevelt); "Ask not what your country can do for you …" (Kennedy).

Barack Obama's second inaugural may not be as enduring as those classics. But it will enter the history books for one line, perhaps even just one word: "Stonewall".

The low-ceilinged dive of a gay bar on Christopher Street in New York's Greenwich Village, which was raided by the NYPD in 1969, is now elevated to American immortality by the head of state. When I heard Obama say Stonewall, I twitched in disbelief. And then, as the president opened his second term with a call for gay equality, I realized just how profoundly, and with what amazing speed, the United States is changing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/21/barack-obama-stonewall-inaugural-gay-equality