WorldPride celebrates 50th anniversary of Stonewall in NYC.

July 1, 2019 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, LIFESTYLES, PRIDE Comments Off on WorldPride celebrates 50th anniversary of Stonewall in NYC.
Participants take part in the NYC Pride March to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots on June 30, 2019, in New York City. (Image: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)

On June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village, sparking two days of tension and riots between the police and gay bar patrons. Fifty years later, members of the LGBTQ community and their allies…