LGBTQ leaders on the past, present and future of the equality movement

Muri Assunção | New York Daily News

Fifty-five years ago, a group of LGBTQ New Yorkers rioted, protested, and got arrested when taking a stand against a routine police raid of a gay bar in Greenwich Village.

While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first time the community fought back against oppression, those six days of confrontations with police — which began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 — marked a new, and global, era in the fight for LGBTQ equality.

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