Posted on 05/03/2016 6:08:07 PM PDT by upchuck
President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich Village neighborhood as the birthplace of America’s modern gay liberation movement...
Protests at the site, which lasted for six days, began in the early morning of June 28, 1969 after police raided the Stonewall Inn, which was frequented by gay men. While patrons of the bar, which is still in operation today in half of its original space, had complied in the past with these crackdowns, that time it sparked a spontaneous riot by bystanders and those who had been detained...
The decision to recognize a critical moment in the fight for gay rights, at a time when politicians in several states are moving to strip away legal protections for transgender, gay, lesbian and bisexual residents, enjoys considerable support within the administration. But the path to declaring the monument has been a complicated one, largely because the site involves private property and a dense urban area where land-use planning is never simple.
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Sounds like Chicago values to me!!!!
And I don’t mean Serbian Chicago values!!!!
Obama? Is he still President?
Mt. Rushmore. The monument dedicated to real heterosexual men. Not some gay bar.
Under President Trump, they’ll demolish the bogus “monument” and plant flowers!!!!
He's going to designate the Vaseline factory as a National Historical site.
Zippy is getting back to his roots
Rather, the rest room of the filthy place.
Build it and they will...
It will be a statue in the image of and dedicated to Satan or Baal.
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