News has come that a local subway station will be rechristened in its honor (new name: Christopher Street-Stonewall National Monument Station), and a brand-new cultural space called Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center opens today in the neighborhood.
You know the Stonewall story.
people in a Greenwich Village dance bar called the Stonewall Inn went ballistic.
So they hit back, shouting, breaking things, throwing things, giving the cops a taste of what it felt like to be hounded and treated like dirt.
It was a big, deeply furious “No” to a history of repression and persecution.
Persons:
Christopher Street, They’d, “
Organizations:
Stonewall, Monument Visitor Center
Locations:
Stonewall, Greenwich