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New York City’s landmarks commission just recently voted to grant official status to the Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village bar that is primarily known for the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.
No other site in the city have ever been designated as a landmark due to its significance to LGBT history.
A police raid at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, which resulted in patrons fighting back in a week-long uprising that is commemorated in gay pride events every year in New York and around the world.
The commission’s chairwoman, Meenakshi Srinivasan, called the Stonewall events a “turning point in the LGBT rights movement and in the history of our nation.”
“New York City’s greatness lies in its inclusivity and diversity,” she said.
-Sherley Boursiquot
