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In N.Y., White House poised to create first monument to gay rights struggle
Wash Post ^ | May 3, 2016 | Juliet Eilperin

Posted on 05/03/2016 6:08:07 PM PDT by upchuck

President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich Village neighborhood as the birthplace of America’s modern gay liberation movement...

Protests at the site, which lasted for six days, began in the early morning of June 28, 1969 after police raided the Stonewall Inn, which was frequented by gay men. While patrons of the bar, which is still in operation today in half of its original space, had complied in the past with these crackdowns, that time it sparked a spontaneous riot by bystanders and those who had been detained...

The decision to recognize a critical moment in the fight for gay rights, at a time when politicians in several states are moving to strip away legal protections for transgender, gay, lesbian and bisexual residents, enjoys considerable support within the administration. But the path to declaring the monument has been a complicated one, largely because the site involves private property and a dense urban area where land-use planning is never simple.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gayrights; homosexualagenda; lgbt; nationalmonument; newyork; obama; stonewall; stonewallinn
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Another reason I'm glad to not live in NYC.
1 posted on 05/03/2016 6:08:07 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck

A pair of geodesic domes at the base of the Washington Monument might serve.


2 posted on 05/03/2016 6:09:11 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats are mean-spirited racists who don't care about our children.)
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I was just thinking, the imagery they decide to propose and later use may be over the top.


3 posted on 05/03/2016 6:12:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: upchuck

obama’s move is FILTHY and DISGUSTING as usual!!!!

As for NYC, it is also the home of the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J Trump!!!!


4 posted on 05/03/2016 6:13:00 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The obama Legacy.


5 posted on 05/03/2016 6:14:35 PM PDT by disndat
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To: upchuck

Wouldn’t expect anything less from Bathhouse Barry.


6 posted on 05/03/2016 6:14:39 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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To: upchuck

500 years from now, no one will know what that monument is as most of the gay men will have died off and the country has reversed homosexuality.


7 posted on 05/03/2016 6:15:28 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: lee martell

This points up now the liberals view this. They mention Selma and Stonewall in the same breath, as if the issues of civil rights for minorities and pushing homosexuality are the same thing.


8 posted on 05/03/2016 6:15:49 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: upchuck

Can’t wait for President Trump to have this sodomite monument scrapped!


9 posted on 05/03/2016 6:15:50 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: upchuck

Will they erect a Big Dildo that looks like Obama ?


10 posted on 05/03/2016 6:16:29 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: upchuck
gay rights struggle

In other words, holding that kid down in the band camp cabin while he is forced into his "born that way" sexuality.

11 posted on 05/03/2016 6:17:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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"....struggle?...?????....a ginormous condom with a knot in it?"

12 posted on 05/03/2016 6:18:06 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon sThailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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A national monument to celebrate sexual perverts. LOL! Smooth move there Obonzo. You moronic freak.


13 posted on 05/03/2016 6:18:36 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer
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To: upchuck

A pair of d**ks and a pair of c**ts?


14 posted on 05/03/2016 6:23:20 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: butlerweave

Modern art piece: “Rockets-to-Sockets”


15 posted on 05/03/2016 6:24:28 PM PDT by twister881 (Politics)
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To: upchuck

16 posted on 05/03/2016 6:39:47 PM PDT by Phillyred
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obama’s move is FILTHY and DISGUSTING as usual!!!! As for NYC, it is also the home of the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J Trump!!!!

New York values?

17 posted on 05/03/2016 6:40:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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“the country has reversed homosexuality”,

Hmmmm, let me think about that...... OK, in keeping with our modern sick times, what that means is male homos will transgender into women and become lesbians, and lesbians will transgender into men and be male homos.

That would be the left’s version of reversed homosexuality.

Seriously, I think you are right. Everything, including human behavior trends work in cycles. Some day, probably after my passing, the people will be just sick of the crap, recognize it as a mental illness and treat all sickos as such. Or maybe the pendulum will swing a little farther and society will start thinning them out with violent methods.

But it will happen. And whatever monuments erected to honor the sickos will be torn down like Hitler’s statues.


18 posted on 05/03/2016 6:42:14 PM PDT by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: upchuck

Hopefully it will be some kind of shapeless “modern art” and not a graphic depiction of you-know-what.


19 posted on 05/03/2016 6:42:24 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: realcleanguy

We’re not going to be a country in 500 years. We’ll split way before then.


20 posted on 05/03/2016 6:45:04 PM PDT by ealgeone
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