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Glad our president has time for this and not some retarded ####
Obama creates first national gay rights monument
President Obama has established a new national monument at New York’s Stonewall Inn, the first such dedication marking the gay rights movement in the United States.
The Stonewall Inn is a Greenwich Village gay bar and the site of a police raid and subsequent riots in 1969 that helped ignite the American gay rights movement. In a White House video released Friday, Obama said that movement “ultimately became an integral part of America.”
Naming a monument at Stonewall Inn as a national monument has been in the works for months. But its official commemoration on Friday comes as America’s LGBT community reels from the mass shooting that killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub earlier this month.
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The Stonewall designation is part of an Obama administration effort to highlight the LGBT rights movement around the country.
The Department of Interior announced in May 2014 that it would conduct a “theme study” of important LGBT sites around the United States. It has named nine sites historical landmarks or added them to the National Register of Historic Places since then.
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Obama creates first national gay rights monument
Obama creates first national gay rights monument
President Obama has established a new national monument at New York’s Stonewall Inn, the first such dedication marking the gay rights movement in the United States.
The Stonewall Inn is a Greenwich Village gay bar and the site of a police raid and subsequent riots in 1969 that helped ignite the American gay rights movement. In a White House video released Friday, Obama said that movement “ultimately became an integral part of America.”
Naming a monument at Stonewall Inn as a national monument has been in the works for months. But its official commemoration on Friday comes as America’s LGBT community reels from the mass shooting that killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub earlier this month.
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The Stonewall designation is part of an Obama administration effort to highlight the LGBT rights movement around the country.
The Department of Interior announced in May 2014 that it would conduct a “theme study” of important LGBT sites around the United States. It has named nine sites historical landmarks or added them to the National Register of Historic Places since then.
More at:
Obama creates first national gay rights monument