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Article: GAYS, LESBIANS CELEBRATE LEGACY OF STONEWALL.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 27, 1994
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Byline: JANNY SCOTT New York Times
NEW YORK Tens of thousands of gay men and lesbians surged through Manhattan on Sunday, celebrating a civil-rights movement that took its first steps during a police raid on a gay bar 25 years ago and seemed in the last week to have come of age.
The participants in the commemoration of what is now known as the Stonewall rebellion had their own reasons for being there. Some came to honor pioneers in the gay movement, to support one another, to protest, to rejoice, to remember the dead or to offer a beacon for the living.
Above all, they came to affirm the legacy of Stonewall: their very openness. Among them ...