New York legalizes gay marriage
By Chen Weihua | China Daily | Updated: 2011-06-27 07:58
Revelers celebrate in front of the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan following the passing of the same-sex marriage bill by a vote of 33 to 29, on Friday, in New York. Louis Lanzano / Associated Press |
NEW YORK - With a police raid in the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan became the birthplace of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the United States.
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