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The exterior of the Stonewall Inn in New York City, with rainbow flags on window grilles and a neon sign reading The Stonewall Inn in the front window.
The Stonewall Inn's exterior at night, featuring a red neon sign reading "The Stonewall Inn" in the window, with string lights and posters visible inside.
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Stonewall riots

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Also known as: Stonewall uprising
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Stonewall riots, series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. As the riots progressed, an international gay rights movement was born. In 1969 the solicitation of homosexual relations was an illegal act in New York City (and indeed virtually all other urban centres). Gay bars were places...

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