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A NEW FIRST FOR THE STONEWALL: On June 27th, as a fitting end to this year’s Gay Pride weekend, it was officially declared the Stonewall National Monument—and the country’s very first honoring the LGBT community and their fight for gay rights. After an introduction by John Jarvis, the director of the National Park Service, there followed a poignant little reminiscence by a veteran of the night of the infamous 1969 police raid telling how at the time it had been the one place where “we were allowed to dance slow together”. Then came speeches from the many public figures supportive of gay rights, including Valerie Jarrett, representing the President, Senator Gillibrand and Congressman Nadler, Mayor de Blasio, and, sharing the dais, the neighborhood’s gay politicians, Deborah Glick, Brad Hoylman and Corey Johnson (at the mike) who brought down the house with his enthusiastic appreciation for President Obama, “our first gay president.” Photo by Maggie Berkvist.
A NEW FIRST FOR THE STONEWALL:  Photo by Maggie Berkvist.

On June 27th, as a fitting end to this year’s Gay Pride weekend, it was officially declared the Stonewall National Monument—and the country’s very first honoring the LGBT community and their fight for gay rights. After an introduction by John Jarvis, the director of the National Park Service, there followed a poignant little reminiscence by a veteran of the night of the infamous 1969 police raid telling how at the time it had been the one place where “we were allowed to dance slow together”. Then came speeches from the many public figures supportive of gay rights, including Valerie Jarrett, representing the President, Senator Gillibrand and Congressman Nadler, Mayor de Blasio, and, sharing the dais, the neighborhood’s gay politicians, Deborah Glick, Brad Hoylman and Corey Johnson (at the mike) who brought down the house with his enthusiastic appreciation for President Obama, “our first gay president.”

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