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<\/p>\nStonewall Inn Voted a NYC Landmark: VIDEO<\/b><\/p>\n
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New York City’s famed Stonewall Inn was today voted an historic landmark by New York City’s landmarks commission.<\/p>\n
The Greenwich Village bar is today considered to be the birthplace of the modern gay<\/a> rights movement.<\/p>\n The AP reports:<\/a><\/p>\n The unanimous vote Tuesday marks the first time a site has been designated as a landmark in the city because of its significance to LGBT history.<\/p>\n Patrons fought back against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969. The uprising is commemorated in gay<\/a> pride events every year in New York and around the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Andrew Berman, executive director for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, spoke about the significance of Stonewall Inn in the trajectory of LGBT history<\/a>:<\/p>\n “To me, the Stonewall Inn represents what Selma represents to the civil rights movement and what Seneca Falls represents to the women<\/a>’s rights movement,” New York City Public Advocate Letitia James said before the commission. “It must be protected from rapacious developers who would destroy the history and what this place represents.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Watch a video<\/a> showing the unanimous vote, below:<\/p>\n Landmark Designation for @StonewallInnNYC<\/a> @nyclandmarks<\/a> vote unanimous @gaycivilrights<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/EfCXy7fmYT<\/a><\/p>\n — Michael Herzenberg (@MHerzenberg) June 23, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [h\/t TNCRM<\/a>]<\/p>\n The post Stonewall Inn Voted a NYC Landmark: VIDEO<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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