PBS doc-Stonewall Riots

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When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

This American Experience documentary special on PBS looks like a winner…given the tensions about bullying, gay rights, and civil liberties these days, it will be a good background video doc. Considering the Obama administration just hired an open gay man to run the White Social Dept…

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