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Stonewall Uprising
May 30, 2019, 6:00 PM
Free
Film screening and panel discussion held as part of the 2019 Central Maine Pride Festival!
When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world. (2010, Unrated, 80 min.)