Accessibility links

Breaking News
USA

America's LGBTQ Community Marks 50 Years of Gay Rights Movement


America's LGBTQ Community Marks 50 Years of Gay Rights Movement
please wait

No media source currently available

0:00 0:03:07 0:00

Fifty years ago today (June 27, 1969), police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. The violent protests that followed galvanized the gay rights movement in America. A half-century later, society's attitudes toward the LGBTQ community has evolved, as highlighted in a groundbreaking exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC. For some members of the LGBTQ community, the exhibit is deeply personal. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more.

XS
SM
MD
LG