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Remembering Stonewall: 50 years on

This post was originally written in 2019 for the Smoke Radio website.


Fifty years ago, at 1:20am a gay bar in Manhattan was raided by police. The raid didn’t go as planned. Instead of the usual demeaning line up, identification check and sex verification, the patrons of the bar refused. For this th…