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The Stonewall Inn, often shortened to Stonewall is an American bar in New York City and the site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which are widely considered to be the single most important events leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for gay and lesbian rights in the United States. - Source: Wikipedia

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In this Monday, June 3, 2019 photo, customers gather at the Stonewall Inn in New York. The original Stonewall Inn didn't survive the 1969 police raid and riots that made it famous as a birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, but the current version will be a focal point of this week's celebrations marking the uprising's 50th anniversary. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

The Latest: Celebrities salute Stonewall on 50th anniversary

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In this Monday, June 3, 2019 photo, customers gather at the Stonewall Inn in New York. The original Stonewall Inn didn't survive the 1969 police raid and riots that made it famous as a birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, but the current version will be a focal point of this week's celebrations marking the uprising's 50th anniversary. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Correction: Stonewall at 50 story

By ALI SWENSON and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this Friday, June 14, 2019 photo, police officers stand outside the Stonewall Inn in New York. The original Stonewall Inn didn't survive the 1969 police raid that made it famous as a birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, but the current version will be a focal point of celebrations this week marking the uprising's 50th anniversary. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

The Stonewall’s path from illicit dive to national monument

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, March 27, 2019, photo, a participant checks in as she arrives for a meeting of the Reclaim Pride Coalition at the Church of the Village in New York. Activists who believe New York City’s annual LGBTQ Pride march has become too commercialized are staging an alternative march the same day. The two marches through Manhattan streets will take place Sunday, June 30, the last day of a month of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Pride or protest? Disillusioned plan their own LGBTQ march

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Karla Jay, a gay rights activist, author, gay and lesbian studies pioneer, prepares to interview outside The Stonewall Inn, Monday, June 3, 2019, in New York. In the wake of the 1969 uprising of gays following a New York Police Department raid at The Stonewall Inn bar, Jay was among hundreds mobilized by the nascent Gay Liberation Front who marched to the site, showing that gay people were mainstream. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Stories of Stonewall: How the LGBTQ rebellion left a legacy

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this 1972 photo provided by The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &amp; Transgender Community Center, demonstrators march through the streets during the Gay Liberation Day march in New York. Gay and lesbian demonstrations grew nationwide following the 1969 New York Police Department raid of gay patrons at The Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village. (Rudy Grillo/The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &amp; Transgender Community Center via AP)

Stonewall: How a raid and rebellion became a rights movement

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

NYC paints public crosswalk to Stonewall in rainbow colors

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In this Friday, June 14, 2019, photo, a framed newspaper clipping greet visitors entering the Stonewall Inn bar, headlining the 1969 riots that followed a police raid of a gay bar at the site, in New York. Some of the coverage of rioting outside the gay bar, like the New York Daily News story &quot;Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees are Stinging Mad,&quot; was a source fury that led Stonewall to become a synonym for the fight for gay rights. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

LGBTQ news coverage still evolving 50 years after Stonewall

By David Bauder - Associated Press

Henry Munoz, left, former Democratic National Committee finance chairman, meets with former Vice President and 2020 Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, center, during his visit to the Stonewall Inn, site of a series of violent confrontations between the gay community and police in 1969, Tuesday June 18, 2019, in New York. Biden has paid a visit to the Stonewall Inn ahead of the 50th anniversary of an uprising that helped spark the gay rights movement. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Biden visits Stonewall ahead of 50th anniversary of uprising

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In this photo taken Feb. 9, 2019, King Key watches the Juneau Pride Chorus sing at the Stonewall 50 Tea &amp; Dance event in Juneau, Alaska. The Stonewall Inn is a National Monument, but Lin Davis said what happened there almost 50 years ago isn't necessarily widely known outside of the LGBTQ community. (Ben Hohenstatt/Capital City Weekly via AP)

Anniversary of Stonewall uprising celebrated in Juneau

By BEN HOHENSTATT - Associated Press

President Obama will reportedly mark Pride Month by designating a part of the Greenwich neighborhood surrounding the Stonewall Inn as the nation's first gay-rights national monument. (Associated Press)

Obama to designate Stonewall Inn area as gay rights national monument: report

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A neon sign fills the window of The Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

A place in history for gay, transgender Americans

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press