In New York City, where organizers are live-streaming the day’s events online, one of the city’s iconic landmarks, the Empire State Building, has turned on its rainbow lights to mark the weekend. And over four decades later, millions across the U.S.
In 1969, a violent confrontation between raiding police and the patrons of the Stonewall Inn bar ignited a number of protests in New York City and helped galvanize the formation of some LGBT activist groups. Gay-pride festivities across the country on Sunday are honoring the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the demonstrations that kickstarted the modern-day LGBT movement in 1969. The riots helped start the modern LGBT movement It is honoring the Stonewall riots on June 28th 1969.Ī crowd attempts to impede police arrests outside the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City, on June 28, 1969 Don't need an arbitrary date on a calendar that tells me I should be proud on that day.
