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50 Years Since Stonewall
Located in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Stonewall National Monument is a National Park Service site dedicated to a key turning point in the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer civil rights movement.
On June 28, 1969, patrons, employees, and police clashed during a raid on the Stonewall Inn. The confrontation spread into the neighboring streets and adjacent Christopher Park. The days-long uprising marked a significant moment in the struggle for LGBTQ rights, providing momentum for the movement well beyond the streets of New York City. Within two years, gay liberation groups were established in almost every major city across the U.S.
The Stonewall Inn in 2016 (NPS / Schenck)
The National Park Service is committed to telling the history of all Americans in all of its diversity and complexity.
- Discover more about LGBTQ heritage with NPS resources
- Stonewall National Monument: Rising for Equality - Step into the landscape (revisiting a 2017 article)
- What are cultural landscapes?
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