Advertisement Continue reading the main story“In the good times we’ve come here, in the bad times we’ve come here,” Brandon Cordeiro, 28, said. PhotoThe red brick facade of the Stonewall Inn has served as the backdrop to countless passages in the history of the gay rights movement. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMuslim leaders, gay rights advocates and local politicians also gathered at a vigil in Jackson Heights, Queens. More recently, more than 100 people attended a town-hall-style meeting to support an initiative aimed at turning Stonewall and its surrounding area into a national monument to the gay rights movement. It was there that a clash between gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender patrons and the New York City police in June 1969 led to a wave of demonstrations demanding equal rights.

Source: New York Times June 13, 2016 00:49 UTC