Get a first look at Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center

This Pride Month marks 55 years since the Stonewall Uprising, which sparked the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. The Stonewall Inn is still operating and now offers a visitor center next door to preserve the history and honor the people behind it. NBC’s Joe Fryer reports for TODAY.
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[@johnmerrill8392]

What a great story!!! Thanks for covering this history @Today

[@fearsomebeard4290]

Love, acceptance, community, understanding, respect, equality, inclusion and joy. Beautiful.

[@the3spirit]

Makes you cry with gratitude how far we've come as a society. Welcome home, Stonewall Inn Visitor Center!

[@vladimirenlow4388]

It's also a reminder of the battles we're still fighting, and how much we have to lose. Why is the concept that everyone has civil rights and a place in society still a point of debate, all these years later?

[@samudramanthan8645]

@@vladimirenlow4388 Oh dear me, if it's not one thing... it's another! So heartbreaking! Thank you for reaching out.

[@blicbloc2575]

This is why Liberty for All is so important. We can be good to each other, always!

[@fxbear]

I wasn’t expecting to cry watching a segment from the today show. If I ever get the chance to visit, I don’t expect I’ll be able to be composed. I’ll just stand there and bawl

[@michaeldennistooley4271]

Know our history 🌈

[@stonerrocky]

It's good to see this. I used to go to the Stonewall back in 1969 to dance. We had two juke boxes one in the bigger room and one in a smaller room. I was there the night it all happened. I got out of the Christopher Street station about 1 AM (Just after Midnight Friday) and saw the Front door entrance all boarded up. I said to myself, "I guess I'm not going to the Stonewall tonight". There were fires in the wire trash cans on the corner. So I went around the corner to go to Julius bar instead. I was 19 at the time, that was the legal age in New York for alcohol. I didn't see all the violence, etc. so I would love to talk to someone else who might have been out that night to find out what actually happened. I was a part of that moment in history!

[@EricaGamet]

I hope you have a chance to share your story with the folks at the visitor center someday. Glad you were safe, at least. Happy Pride!

[@stonerrocky]

@@EricaGamet Happy Pride to you too! I will reach out to them at the visitor center.

[@ashleygola9400]

Love this! Really want to visit there someday.

[@cmnyc4286]

It's very close (walkable) to the 9/11 Memorial, 9/11 Glade (new - for first responders that have passed away as a result of 9/11) as well.

[@KrisRyanStallard]

How wonderful!

[@DavidLS1]

Incredibly moving. We really have come a long way. 🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈

[@MichaelSorbello-yo4nl]

Two wonderful women making it happen..way to go !

[@bcb7443]

🌈 Happy Pride y’all! 🌈

[@djbronzed]

What a beautiful story of the bravery and strides made within a community that was once in the shadows. We will stay visible and will not allow the extreme right to push us back into the shadows. Equality for all!

[@Javelina2112]

This is great

[@burgewo]

❤fabulous

[@Marchant2]

This hits me viscerally. It's wonderful.

[@dragonboy718]

Was there yesterday

[@Scuor2]

Gosh i gotta like the Today show now 😂❤

[@Kiwi-Macca]

Thanks for covering this. We have come so far yet today we seem to be going backwards. Witness the recent "moms for liberty" melt down in a Hawaiian hotel lobby with drag queens being publicly humiliated. So shocking and sad.

[@bookgirlny8511]

👏👏👏🏳️‍🌈

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Come on..Segway better..yall can do it. Hire me!

[@b.1162]

Stop using mutilation and sterilization for a psychological problem! And leave the kids alone!

[@johnbrowneyes7534]

Yes, clergy should leave the kids alone!

[@LucyLoulovesyou]

Can't see you being a good influence on anyone young. . .

[@Matt-fl8uy]

OP - Are you noting the abuse the Boy Scouts paid tens of millions to cover uo?

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[@wisemandaryn5953]

As is typical right now, these relevant stories often attract comments from the likes of people who speak only on the basis of their own twisted ideology; heavy on ignorance and void of facts. Unfortunately, it's no longer uncommon to read a response that includes the likes of "sterilization" or "mutilation" -- it's one of the many repetitive byproducts of an uneducated individual. Facts don't belong in their universe. If the safety of children were truly a priority and not a political football among other things, a fully legitimate organization and movement such as "Save the Children" wouldn't have been co-opted in pursuit of radical propaganda, ironically working (both directly & indirectly) against the very subject they appear to champion.

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