Modern City · event 8 of 15

28 June 1969

The Stonewall uprising. A police raid on the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street sets off several nights of resistance. The first Pride marches are held on the anniversary the following year. The site is now a National Monument, the first in the United States dedicated to LGBTQ history.

The Modern City era

  1. 27 October 1904
  2. 25 March 1911
  3. 1916
  4. 1920
  5. 23 October 1929
  6. 1 May 1931
  7. 1934
  8. 28 June 1969
  9. 1969
  10. 4 April 1973
  11. 30 October 1975
  12. 11 September 2001
  13. 29 October 2012
  14. 1 January 2017
  15. 1 March 2020

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