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The greatest of hypocrisies: Gays condemn black riots over racism, forget how our movement started
Some gays are hypocrites. They condemn the rioting in the aftermath of extreme miscarriages of justice for black people, all the while ignoring the fact they gather once a year …
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National Park Service announces effort to mark historic LGBT sites
The U.S. National Park Service will begin marking places of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced Friday at the Stonewall Inn, scene of the 1969 riots widely credited with starting the modern gay rights movement.
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National Park Service aims to identify, promote historic LGBT sites
SAN FRANCISCO — The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative.
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Storme DeLarverie, lesbian activist who took part in Stonewall riots, dies at 93
NEW YORK — Storme DeLarverie, a lesbian activist who took part in the New York Stonewall riots in 1969 that si widely credited as the start of the gay rights movement in the United States, has died. She was 93.
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Guinness cancels sponsorship of NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade over gay ban
NEW YORK — Guinness announced Sunday it is cancelling its sponsorship of Monday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City because event organizers refuse to allow gay participants to carry signs expressing their LGBT pride.
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Historic Stonewall Inn to drop Guinness beer over NYC parade sponsorship
NEW YORK — New York’s historic Stonewall Inn, site of the Stonewall riots of 1969 which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the modern gay rights movement, will drop Guinness beer from its shelves on Monday following the beer company’s decision to stand by its sponsorship of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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Remembering Stonewall: Why LGBT pride can now be celebrated openly
NEW YORK — Forty-four years ago tonight, in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, uniformed and plain-clothed New York City police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular Greenwich Village gay bar on Christopher Street.
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Remembering Stonewall: Why LGBT pride can now be celebrated openly
NEW YORK — In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, uniformed and plain-clothed New York City police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular Greenwich Village gay bar on Christopher Street.
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Stonewall celebrates passage of marriage equality in New York (Video)
Thousands gathered in the street and inside Stonewall on Friday night, the site of the birth of the day rights movement, to celebrate the passage of marriage equality in New York.
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History in NY state – Almost 42 years after Stonewall, marriage equality passes
Today, June 24, 2011, New York state gay and lesbian committed couples cross a great milestone to being equal citizens by being allowed to enjoy the rights of marriage.