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NYC inn that fueled gay rights action a landmark

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NEW YORK — The Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village bar where resistance to a police raid sparked the modern gay rights movement, was made a city landmark Tuesday, the first time a site has been named primarily because of its significan­ce to the LGBT history.

Patrons fought back against a police raid on the inn on June 28, 1969, and the street protests that followed for several days are credited with galvanizin­g lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgende­r activism in New York and globally.

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