Today, June 28, marks 54 years since the first day of the famous Stonewall Uprising in 1969 when when bar patrons at the Stonewall Inn fought back against police during a raid of the bar. Following the riots at the Greenwich Village bar, within weeks, local residents organized into activist groups demanding the right to live openly regarding their sexual orientation without fear of being arrested. While there had been smaller protests and riots for gay rights throughout the 1960s, Stonewall is widely considered the watershed moment for Gay Liberation, with the first Gay Pride marches happening only 1 year later on the first anniversary of the riot.

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