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“The nights of Friday, June 27, 1969 and Saturday, June 28, 1969 will go down in history as the first time that thousands of Homosexual men and women went out into the streets to protest the intolerable situation which has existed in New York City for many years…”
Today marks 54 years since the famous riots which began with a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, and were a catalyst for the modern gay rights movement in the USA, and many other countries.
[images: the Stonewall Inn, a two-story city building with a large sign reading Stonewall Inn out the front; rioters gathered on a building’s steps near Stonewall, some looking into the camera and smiling, two couples kissing; police confronting rioters]

















