Stonewall riots 50 years later: ‘We were fighting and it was for our lives’

He was at the Stonewall Inn on June 28 when riots at the New York City gay bar changed the course of LGBTQ+ rights in America forever. Segal went on to become one of the youngest members of the Gay Liberation Front, an activist group, helping to organize the first gay youth organization and the first gay pride march. I know that might sound strange, but at least we had a Key Moments in Fight for Gay Rights there was a gay bar that existed, the cops were paid off,” said activist Jim Fouratt, who was also at the Stonewall Inn that night in June, and went on to co-found the Gay Liberation Front.

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