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spazzmann

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Fri Jun 28, 2013, 11:05 AM Jun 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on June 28, 1969


Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, being subjected to routine anti-homosexual harassment by the New York City police raiding the bar, spontaneously fought back in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement. http://bit.ly/17HChvg

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Today in Peace and Justice history on June 28, 1969
 (Original Post) spazzmann Jun 2013 OP
And so it began.... Rowdyboy Jun 2013 #1
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