Gay club in Manhattan made a national monument of the United States,
In the United States appeared first memorial activists for LGBT rights.
President Barack Obama announced the new York bar Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park square near it and his other surroundings the first country in the history of the national monument to homosexuals.
On Friday, June 24, the White house said about the memorial, telling the story of Americans LGBT”.
New memorial complex was included in the national Park system of the United States. “Our national parks should fully reflect the country’s history,” said Obama.
In June 1969, the police stormed the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan, where the assembled representatives of the LGBT community, despite an official ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages. The bar repelled the attack, around the building, gathered a crowd of sympathizers.
This incident led to mass protests and clashes activists by police, which lasted several days and became the starting point in the struggle for the rights of sexual minorities in the United States. Daily going to the demonstration, the leaders of this movement assert their demands of respect and equality is emphasized in the message of the White house.
Bar Stonewall Inn and is today a popular place in new York’s LGBT environment. So, after the terrorist attack in gay club in Orlando June 12, thousands of people came to honor the memory of the 49 dead there.
In the same place, the LGBT community celebrated a historic U.S. Supreme court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all States, submitted 26 June 2015.
