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#Stonewall is the first historic site in the #US dedicated to the nation’s #LGBTQrights movement. The Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street, has long been seen as a cradle of the movement after a police raid there in June 1969 set off 3 days of protests & riots in the surrounding streets.
Since then, the site has become well known on a global scale, & #LGBTQ events & organizations in several countries, including Britain, Australia & Germany, have been named in its honor.
“Government institutions have not always been reliable narrators of #history, & that isn’t an accusation, it’s a historical fact,” she said. “The concern isn’t about the symbolism of the flag necessarily; it’s about what decisions are being made when the narrative isn’t controlled by the people who have lived that history.”
On Tuesday, Mayor #ZohranMamdani said he was “outraged” by the flag’s removal.
#Stonewall is the first historic site in the #US dedicated to the nation’s #LGBTQrights movement. The Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street, has long been seen as a cradle of the movement after a police raid there in June 1969 set off 3 days of protests & riots in the surrounding streets.
Since then, the site has become well known on a global scale, & #LGBTQ events & organizations in several countries, including Britain, Australia & Germany, have been named in its honor.