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| Pride Week: Live Updates on the Stonewall Inn Anniversary | Pride Week: Live Updates on the Stonewall Inn Anniversary |
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| “$10 cover charge” read the sign outside the Stonewall Inn. “No backpacks.” | |
| Still, there was a long line of people waiting to make it inside the bar where a police raid kicked off the equality movement 50 years ago. | |
| Once past the security guards, who checked bags and handed out wristbands, patrons entered the bar and many grabbed the obligatory selfie, their photos lit by the colors from a neon light in a corner. Dozens of small rainbow flags hanging from the ceiling provided the backdrop. | |
| Some customers leaned against the back wall and nursed beers, as others shouted above the blaring dance music. | |
| Some patrons crowded the bar for drinks. Others lined up for the restrooms in the back. | |
| In the front corner of the Stonewall, Tanya Hagemann, 30, and her wife, Karin, 30, sipped beers and watched the scene, happy to be visiting from Berlin. | |
| “This is our honeymoon,” Tanya Hagemann said, adding that the couple married last month and decided to celebrate the union in New York during WorldPride. | |
| “This is a unique moment for the entire gay community,” she added. “It’s special to come to a place where everything began.” | |
| Of the countless rainbow flags flying seemingly everywhere, she said: “I didn’t know it was so accepted and so common throughout this whole city. It’s special. It’s cool. It’s really perfect.” — Derek M. Norman | |
| Mayor Bill de Blasio, fresh off his first presidential debate appearance, and subsequent snafu about Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary who is disliked in much of South Florida, (oy!), spoke at the Pride rally. He came to celebrate. | Mayor Bill de Blasio, fresh off his first presidential debate appearance, and subsequent snafu about Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary who is disliked in much of South Florida, (oy!), spoke at the Pride rally. He came to celebrate. |
| “Happy Pride, everybody!” he said to loud cheers at around 6:15 p.m. In his remarks, he called those who had stood up at Stonewall in 1969, setting the stage for future gay rights activism, “brave.” | “Happy Pride, everybody!” he said to loud cheers at around 6:15 p.m. In his remarks, he called those who had stood up at Stonewall in 1969, setting the stage for future gay rights activism, “brave.” |
| “They stood up and they prevailed and they triumphed and everyone here today, everyone is living a better life,” he told the crowd. He requested “thunderous applause,” and the crowd complied. That was “pretty damn thunderous!” he said. | “They stood up and they prevailed and they triumphed and everyone here today, everyone is living a better life,” he told the crowd. He requested “thunderous applause,” and the crowd complied. That was “pretty damn thunderous!” he said. |
| “People are free to be themselves,” Mr. de Blasio said. “But, wait, this is where I have to be serious with all of us,” he added, pausing for a second. “There are some who want to take us backward.” | “People are free to be themselves,” Mr. de Blasio said. “But, wait, this is where I have to be serious with all of us,” he added, pausing for a second. “There are some who want to take us backward.” |
| Mr. De Blasio then introduced the owners of the Stonewall Inn and a group of people who were there when the police raided the bar on that night 50 years ago. A sea of cellphones went up to record the moment as the mayor announced that June 28 will officially be Stonewall Day. — Emily Palmer | Mr. De Blasio then introduced the owners of the Stonewall Inn and a group of people who were there when the police raided the bar on that night 50 years ago. A sea of cellphones went up to record the moment as the mayor announced that June 28 will officially be Stonewall Day. — Emily Palmer |
| Visitors came from around the block and around the world, streaming through the streets surrounding the Stonewall Inn. | Visitors came from around the block and around the world, streaming through the streets surrounding the Stonewall Inn. |
| Storefronts flew rainbow flags and pumped pulsing pop music onto the sidewalks, where vendors hawked Pride merchandise. | Storefronts flew rainbow flags and pumped pulsing pop music onto the sidewalks, where vendors hawked Pride merchandise. |
| Police officers sought refuge from the sweltering sun in doorways, and firefighters rested on their hulking red trucks. | Police officers sought refuge from the sweltering sun in doorways, and firefighters rested on their hulking red trucks. |
| The crowd outside the Stonewall included Chris Conzen, 42, of Roxbury, N.J., and his daughter, Sara, 10, who had come to Manhattan to see a Broadway show. Mr. Conzen said he wanted to give Sara the “basics” about Pride, so they stopped in Greenwich Village. | The crowd outside the Stonewall included Chris Conzen, 42, of Roxbury, N.J., and his daughter, Sara, 10, who had come to Manhattan to see a Broadway show. Mr. Conzen said he wanted to give Sara the “basics” about Pride, so they stopped in Greenwich Village. |
| “I wanted her to know about the Stonewall, the harassment that happened 50 years ago and how a community finally started to fight back,” he said. | “I wanted her to know about the Stonewall, the harassment that happened 50 years ago and how a community finally started to fight back,” he said. |
| Adam Daicy, 33, and his partner of 15 years, Joey Figueiredo, 32, flew in from Kansas City, Mo., for the weekend’s festivities. Mr. Daicy’s hair was dyed purple and he wore glittery rainbow eye shadow; Mr. Figueiredo wore sunglasses and had a bright-pink beard. | Adam Daicy, 33, and his partner of 15 years, Joey Figueiredo, 32, flew in from Kansas City, Mo., for the weekend’s festivities. Mr. Daicy’s hair was dyed purple and he wore glittery rainbow eye shadow; Mr. Figueiredo wore sunglasses and had a bright-pink beard. |
| “I wanted to be here to celebrate the biggest time in history,” Mr. Figueiredo said. — Derek M. Norman | “I wanted to be here to celebrate the biggest time in history,” Mr. Figueiredo said. — Derek M. Norman |
| The conflict between the police and the L.G.B.T.Q. community had been simmering long before the Stonewall uprising in 1969. It was on that June 28 night that the tension boiled over. | The conflict between the police and the L.G.B.T.Q. community had been simmering long before the Stonewall uprising in 1969. It was on that June 28 night that the tension boiled over. |
| While law enforcement’s views of L.G.B.T.Q. people have improved since then, the police’s relationship with the community remains fraught. In recent years, activists had been pushing for Police Department officials to formally apologize for the crackdown. | While law enforcement’s views of L.G.B.T.Q. people have improved since then, the police’s relationship with the community remains fraught. In recent years, activists had been pushing for Police Department officials to formally apologize for the crackdown. |
| They got their wish on June 6, when New York’s police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, formally apologized for the officers’ actions at Stonewall. | They got their wish on June 6, when New York’s police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, formally apologized for the officers’ actions at Stonewall. |
| “What happened should not have happened,” Mr. O’Neill told the crowd at Police Headquarters. | “What happened should not have happened,” Mr. O’Neill told the crowd at Police Headquarters. |
| It was a step toward reconciliation that was heralded by some activists. But others criticized the police for continuing practices that they said unfairly victimized L.G.B.T.Q. people, particularly transgender women of color. | It was a step toward reconciliation that was heralded by some activists. But others criticized the police for continuing practices that they said unfairly victimized L.G.B.T.Q. people, particularly transgender women of color. |
| The commissioner’s apology also came amid a debate over the role of the police in Pride events around the country. In New York, a group of activists created a separate march that excluded the police in an attempt to connect Pride back to the anti-police activity at Stonewall. — Michael Gold | The commissioner’s apology also came amid a debate over the role of the police in Pride events around the country. In New York, a group of activists created a separate march that excluded the police in an attempt to connect Pride back to the anti-police activity at Stonewall. — Michael Gold |
| When Barbara Poma opened the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in 2004, she wanted to make it the kind of place where L.G.B.T.Q. people would be proud to bring their mothers. Now she is trying to make it a place where survivors and others touched by the mass shooting that took place there on June 12, 2016, can find solace and peace. | When Barbara Poma opened the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in 2004, she wanted to make it the kind of place where L.G.B.T.Q. people would be proud to bring their mothers. Now she is trying to make it a place where survivors and others touched by the mass shooting that took place there on June 12, 2016, can find solace and peace. |
| Since the tragedy, which killed 49 people, Ms. Poma has founded the OnePulse Foundation, whose mission is to build a permanent memorial and museum on the site of the former nightclub, which never reopened. It would also endow 49 scholarships, one for each life lost. | Since the tragedy, which killed 49 people, Ms. Poma has founded the OnePulse Foundation, whose mission is to build a permanent memorial and museum on the site of the former nightclub, which never reopened. It would also endow 49 scholarships, one for each life lost. |
| In keeping with the more somber tone of the rally tonight, Ms. Poma will be among the featured speakers. One of the themes of the evening is finding strength to transform the painful history of exclusion faced by L.B.G.T.Q. people into fuel for positive action. | In keeping with the more somber tone of the rally tonight, Ms. Poma will be among the featured speakers. One of the themes of the evening is finding strength to transform the painful history of exclusion faced by L.B.G.T.Q. people into fuel for positive action. |
| “It was hard to come to grips with my new reality, but it’s something I have to do; it’s something I know I was called to do, and I am honored to do it,” Ms. Poma said in a video on her OnePulse Foundation website. “Let’s show the world that love always wins.” — Sharon Otterman | “It was hard to come to grips with my new reality, but it’s something I have to do; it’s something I know I was called to do, and I am honored to do it,” Ms. Poma said in a video on her OnePulse Foundation website. “Let’s show the world that love always wins.” — Sharon Otterman |
| At the time of the Stonewall uprising, 50 years ago tonight, the mob owned most of the city’s gay bars. A mobster named Fat Tony with the Genovese crime family owned the Stonewall; he had opened the bar two years before as a private club because he could not get a liquor license for it. | |
| The flier that announced the first Pride march in New York, the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970, said, in part: “What it will all come to no one can tell. It is our hope that the day will come when homosexuals will be an integral part of society — being treated as human beings.” | |
| The Leslie-Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art in SoHo is the only museum in the world dedicated to artwork that speaks to the L.G.B.T.Q. experience. Learn more about it on this New York Times audio tour of 11 landmarks in Gay New York. | |
| [Explore more of our coverage on Pride, L.B.G.T.Q. history and culture.] | |
| — Sharon Otterman |