Fifty years ago, a riot broke out at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. In 1969 it was common for police officers to rough up a gay bar and ask for payoffs. That's what ...

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Stonewall. They say it was the spark that set the fire ablaze. The start of the modern LGBTQ movement. Protests and riots that lasted for days in defense of gay rights. And from it, came gay pride ...

NEW YORK – First they erased transgender people from the government's version of LGBTQ+ history. Now they've taken down the rainbow flag. The Trump administration quietly removed a large pride flag at ...

The Trump administration’s removal of the multicolor gay pride flag from the federal Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village insults history and must be reversed. That flag has to fly again ...

The Stonewall Inn in New York City was the site of a 1969 police raid that sparked protests and became a major flashpoint in the LGBTQ+ rights movement. A visitor center opened in 2024 next to the bar ...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an early activist for transgender rights and one of the protesters in the Stonewall Inn riots that sparked the modern movement for LGBTQ+ equality, has died. She was 78. Miss ...