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40th Anniversary Stonewall Riots

1969-2009 

 

Gay History Revealed as the GAY FREEDOM PLAQUE is FOUND AFTER 30 YEARS !! 

 

"Long Live the Spirit of Stonewall"

 

So proclaims the rousing ending of the Stonewall Declaration of Gay Freedom. This plaque was presented by a group then known as the Gay Walk for Freedom who organized the first huge march up Fifth Avenue on the tenth anniversary of the Stonewall riots.  It was carved into hardwood and presented to all gay people on July 25, 1978. It was unveiled in a simple ceremony before a large crowd in front of the Stonewall building upon which it was mounted. At the time Stonewall housed a beauty salon. The next day the plaque was gone. This is the story as it was told by the photographer. He tells of how it was first photographed and then rediscovered. As a freelance photographer in New York City during the 1970’s, he was eye witness to those glorious and heady gay days leading up to the AIDS crisis.  

    

     “I got a call from my editor on June 23, 1978. He asked me if I knew about the parade that was for the first time going right up the distance of Fifth Avenue clear to Central Park on Saturday and was I going. I told him that I hadn’t gone to any of the other parades they had been having in the Village the last several years and I probably wouldn’t  

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''Let it forever be remembered that here -

on this spot --

men and women stood proud, they stood fast,

so that

we may be who we are, we may work where we will,

live where we choose and

love whom our hearts desire.''

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Discovery 30 years later of original 1978 Original Stonewall Plaque  

Where did PRIDE come from??
 
This website has been created in the endeavour to make available to every gay person a record of the Declaration of Gay Freedom unveiled 10 years after the Stonewall Riots. We wish to keep it simple and honest.
 
 
 
U.S. Honors Stonewall Inn
     WASHINGTON--For the first time the federal government has recognized a gay and lesbian site, New York City's Stonewall Inn. It has been deemed worthy of inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
     The bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village was the scene of several nights of protests and fighting after police raided it in the early hours of June 28, 1969. Protesters assembled in the street after the arrest of patrons and employees to demonstrate for the first time their right to be gay. Police were forced to retreat after angry patrons began throwing beer cans, pennies and other items.   

The Obama administration is to endorse a UN declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalisation of homosexuality. President George W Bush had refused to sign the declaration during his office, making the US the only western state not to offer its support.

US officials told Associated Press yesterday that they had notified the declaration's French sponsors that the administration wants to be added as a supporter. They said the administration had decided to sign the declaration to demonstrate that the US supports human rights for all.

As Congress was still being notified of the decision, sources declined to be named. "The United States is an outspoken defender of human rights and critic of human rights abuses around the world," said one official.

"As such, we join with the other supporters of this statement and we will continue to remind countries of the importance of respecting the human rights of all people in all appropriate international fora."

The official added that the United States was concerned about "violence and human rights abuses against gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual individuals" and was also "troubled by the criminalisation of sexual orientation in many countries."

"In the words of the United States Supreme Court, the right to be free from criminalisation on the basis of sexual orientation 'has been accepted as an integral part of human freedom'," the official said.

During a vote in December, 66 of the UN's 192 member countries signed the declaration.