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Flashback

Flashback: Stonewall Inn Riots of 1969

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On June 28, 1969, patrons at NYC gay bar Stonewall Inn decided they had finally had enough after yet another police raid, and their resistance is widely credited with sparking the modern LGBTQ-rights movement in the U.S. In honor of LGBTQ History Month, NBC OUT looks back at this uprising.

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