NYC inn that fueled gay rights action a landmark
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.