The current Stonewall Inn doesn’t bear much resemblance to the original. The monument was established by President Barack Obama in June 2016 and consists of Christopher Park, the Stonewall Inn and the surrounding streets where the 1969 riots took place. “And that’s a very New York concept.”įour million people are expected to descend on New York City for Pride events this year, many from distant corners of the world. NYC’s Pride events “are about standing up for who you are,” Dixon said. The New-York Historical Society will have three exhibitions.” The Bronx Museum of the Arts will have an exhibit on an amazing photographer who captured the gay scene in the city in the 1970s. “We’ll have exhibitions throughout the five boroughs. “The arts and cultural communities have really stepped up in powerful ways,” said Fred Dixon, president and chief executive of NYC & Co., the city’s tourism marketing group. Exhibitions and other events are being held throughout June in what New York City tourism officials are calling “The Year of Pride.” To mark a half-century of progress since the Stonewall uprising, what’s now called WorldPride will take place this summer in New York City, its first time in the United States.
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