(AURN News) — This Sunday marks 57 years since the Stonewall uprising began in New York City on June 28, 1969.
In the early morning hours, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village.
Raids on LGBTQ spaces were common at the time, but that night patrons and community members pushed back.
The confrontation grew into several nights of protests outside the bar and in the surrounding streets.
Stonewall was not the beginning of LGBTQ resistance, but it became a major turning point in the movement for LGBTQ rights in the United States.
The uprising helped inspire new organizations, public demonstrations and the first Pride marches the following year.
More than five decades later, Stonewall remains a reminder of the people who resisted police harassment and demanded the right to live openly and safely in their own communities and beyond.
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