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What time is it where you are?

Right here, right now, as we release this minisode, it's 120 a.m. on Friday, June 28, 2019.

It's exactly 50 years since the police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.

Exactly 50 years since hundreds of people fought back on Christopher Street.

Exactly 50 years since gay power erupted as an affirmation and a demand for a new generation of queer activists.

And we're marking this moment by releasing firsthand accounts of the raid, the riots, and the struggle for liberation that followed.

I hope you'll take these voices with you as you celebrate pride this weekend and beyond,

and remember those who came before us.

I'm Eric Marcus. This is making gay history and we're able to

bring you these extra minisodes thanks to the generous support of Christopher Street Financial.

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In the first few years right after the Stonewall Uprising, Mordee Manford became a leader in the gay civil rights movement in New York

City as president of the gay activist alliance and co-founder with his mother, Gene Manford, of P- Flag, an organization

for the families of gay people.

But on June 28, 1969,

Mordy was a 19-year-old student at Columbia University

who was still struggling with his gay identity

when the police swept into the Stonewall Inn

and the raid was on.

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