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In remembrance of the Stonewall riots, which began on June 28, 1969, we look back at our feature about the uprising’s 50th anniversary in 2019 while paying tribute to Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Stormé DeLarverie three gay activists who all played their part in the night that started a movement.
Fifty years ago this summer, a bottle was thrown, a cop was punched and a movement was born. Police raided New York’s Stonewall Inn, as they had before, to break up same-sex couples dancing, which was illegal, and to check that everyone was wearing at least three pieces of gender appropriate clothing, in accordance with another statute at the time. And for some reason maybe it was because the spirit of the ’60s had finally made it to this darkened mob-run tavern or