Routine matter. Some of the patrons were allowed to exit and some were detained. It was common for the police to detain bar owners, managers, bartenders, people of color,eople who transgressed gender that lingo of the day, transvestites or street greens, and people who talked a bad or fought back. Some people were detained inside the bar. Others began exiting the bar, but on that night and by this time it was the Early Morning hours of june 28, patrons began gathering on the streets outside. And as the police tried to bring those they had detained into police wagons, the crowd began to erupt. And over the next three nights there ensued rioting in the streets, protests demonstrations. , at one point police were trapped inside the bar until arrived, thes Tactical Police the riot control called and try to reestablish order on the streets, but the rioting proceeded over several days. Over the course of the next week. Steve but why this location . Why the Stonewall Inn why this , set of cir
People at risk of becoming victims of knife crime. The plan will be discussed at next months general si nod of the church of england where theyll consider the plan will be discussed at next months general synod of the church of england where theyll consider whether churches should open their doors to Vulnerable Children after school. Kathryn stan cheshun has more. Kathryn stancheshun has more. Theyve always been places of sanctuary but could churches now become a bigger part of the fight against knife crime . There are calls today for buildings like this to make sure their doors are open in the hours after school finishes. A safe haven for any child at risk. Members of my church have lost loved ones through knife crime and i think having the resources of churches, its an amazing resource, and i think, actually, we should look at ourselves and say, are there ways in which we can open our churches in that critical post school hours . Certainly, i think its possible and could be one of th
Up next we hear from his for in an marc stein, editor of the stone wall riots. He spoke with us from greenwich village. Having to lie i feel is the saddest and the ugliest part of being a homosexual, when you have your first bad love experience, for instance, and you cant go to your brother or your sister and say im hurting. At first i was very guilty, and then i realized that all the things that are taught you not only by society, but by psychiatrists, are just to fit you in a mold. I just rejected the mold, and when i rejected the mold, i was happier. Independent organizations all across the country, there are somewhere between 60 and 75 independent groups across the United States, maybe more now. They keep growing up overnight and this is a unified effort on the part of some 20 or 30 organizations on the east coast. The differences primarily are approach. Certain groups, for example, tend to emphasize very militant confrontation tactics. Other groups will emphasize a more educationa
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from North Carolina, ms. Foxx, for five minutes. Madam thank you, speaker. Madam speaker, i rise to congratulate wanda k. Brown on her inauguration as president of the American Library association. The oldest and Largest Library association in the world. Ms. Brown has an exemplary record as the director of Library Services at winstonsalem State Universitys c. G. Owe Kelly Library in North Carolinas fifth district. She also served as associate dean of the z. Smith Reynolds Library at wake forest university. During her tenure as president of the North Carolin
There is still some dry, bright and reasonably warm weather to be enjoyed through the afternoon. Temperatures up to about 2k degrees in parts of southern and eastern england. For scotland, one ortwo showers building for the northern pa rt showers building for the northern part of scotland, but then the rain moves in through the south west and heads northwards through the country over the night. Some heavy, thundery bursts of rain overnight and particularly in the north of england and into eastern scotland. There could be quite a lot of blank surface water. Elsewhere in the uk, sunny spells but happy and thundery showers. They are hit and miss do we wont all see them. Temperatures somewhere between 18 and up to 25 degrees. Colour in the north of scotland. Some heavy rain around on tuesday, particularly in south eastern parts of england. Things will become drier and warmer from the middle of the week onwards. Hello this is bbc news with ben brown. The headlines theres continued focus on