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History is pushed down, it's suppressed because it causes people to make connections between,

oh, this happened a long time ago, was there any kind of reparation?

50 years from now, people will remember the young, black, trans, queer,

gender-na达 conforming kids from the hood who continue to fight.

It's powerful to think people will be talking about us and about community in the future,

using words that we don't even know what they are now, and that they'll be so far beyond

what we think of as our breaking down of boundaries and barriers.

This is Code Switch from MPR, I'm Jean Demby, and I'm Shireen Marisol Mirage, June is

Pride Month, all over the country people are celebrating who they are and fighting for justice.

But this June is special. It marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.

On June 28th 1969, queer and trans people have been gathering at a gay bar in Manhattan's West

Village. That night, the police conducted a raid on the bar, the Stonewall Inn,

raids like this had become routine. Police would show up and shut the bar down for serving alcohol

illegally, and they would arrest people for dressing outside gender norms. And though this happened

a lot, the night of June 28th was different. On that night, people fought back, breaking glass,

storing bottles, storing punches, and the police quickly lost control.

Story goes, that is the night that sparked the modern LGBT rights movement.

The night that queer people proclaimed they were not going to take it anymore,

and it's what sparked the first pride parades across the country the following year.

And now that 50 years have passed, people are looking back.

One of the places looking back is the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. They have an exhibition

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