Stonewall-Era Activists and Queer Millennials Discuss the State of the LGBTQ Community, Then and Now

Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the West Village of Manhattan — and of the uprising it sparked. While not the first demonstration made by the LGBTQ community against police crackdowns, that series of late night scuffles on June 28, 1969, on Christopher Street have come to be seen as the symbolic start of the gay-liberation movement in the United States.

Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the West Village of Manhattan — and of the uprising it sparked. While not the first demonstration made by the LGBTQ community against police crackdowns, that series of late night scuffles on June 28, 1969, on Christopher Street have come to be seen as the symbolic start of the gay-liberation movement in the United States.