Obama announces Stonewall National Momument

[+ WmClarke]

Woo-hoo!

 

http://www.towleroad.com/2016/06/stonewall-national-monument/

[+ Truereview]

Wow...id love to see the video that will play in Times Square!

 

The designation will create the first official National Park Service unit dedicated to telling the story of LGBT Americans, just days before the one year anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteeing marriage equality in all 50 states. Additionally, in celebration of the designation and New York City’s Pride festival, the White House, in coordination with the National Park Foundation and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, is releasing a video that will be played on the billboards in Times Square on Saturday, June 25, beginning at 12:00pm ET.

 

The new Stonewall National Monument will permanently protect Christopher Park, a historic community park at the intersection of Christopher Street, West 4th Street and Grove Street directly across from the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. The monument’s boundary encompasses approximately 7.7 acres of land, including Christopher Park, the Stonewall Inn, and the surrounding streets and sidewalks that were the site of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

[+ glennnn]

Wonderful! But it breaks my heart to think about how much more our President could have accomplished with a modicum of cooperation and decency from the recalcitrant Republican congress.

[Mo Mason]

A monument honoring us? In the U.S.?

 

Thank you, Mister President. I never thought I'd see the day.

 

This makes me cry...thinking of the millions of people whom to make this possible have fought; have died from complications due to AIDS; have committed suicide; have been murdered and beaten; have been wrongfully imprisoned; have been called hell-bound abominations by the religious; have lived friendless, familyless, and even homeless; have lost everything.

 

This is progress, and it is beautiful.

[mattr]

The first national monument that has strippers and lap-dances on Wednesday nights... o_Oo_O

[+ WmClarke]

The first national monument that has strippers and lap-dances on Wednesday nights... o_Oo_O

Which, by definition, makes it the best national monument!