Visitor center to be built at Stonewall Inn

(25 Jun 2022)
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New York - 24 June 2022
1. Various of officials using shovels in groundbreaking ceremony
2. Exterior of the Stonewall Inn
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kurt Kelly, owner, The Stonewall Inn:
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"The Stonewall means strength in numbers. Every time you put a rock on that wall, we become stronger, stronger and stronger. The more people that join and believe in us and support us makes the wall stronger."
4. Wide exterior of Stonewall Inn
ANNOTATION: The National Park Service announced it will build the first visitor center dedicated to LGBTQ rights next door to the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan.
5. Tight of of uniformed member of the National Park Service with pride flags
ANNOTATION: The bar became a symbol of the gay rights movement following a 1969 police raid that sparked demonstrations.
6. Wide of uniformed members of the National Park Service shoveling in groundbreaking ceremony
ANNOTATION: In 2016, the site was officially named a national monument to gay rights.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kurt Kelly, owner, The Stonewall Inn:
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"What this means is the visitor center is the last piece of the puzzle of the monument. Now we're all whole, and now we can educate and we can speak out."
8. Tight of pride flags on Stonewall Inn building
9. Wide exterior of Stonewall Inn
10. Tight of historical photo on display at monument
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kurt Kelly, owner, The Stonewall Inn:
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"So we have to stick up, know our history and how important it is to fight back. The younger generation -- the younger generation has to know where they came from, that there was a point where they couldn't say who they loved. They couldn't say who they are. Now they can. We got to keep that going."
STORYLINE:
Officials gathered outside a historic bar in the gay rights movement on Friday to commemorate the construction of a new visior center aimed at educating the public about LGBTQ history.
A space next to The Stonewall Inn will become the first visitor center focusing on gay rights that is part of the National Park Service.
The bar became a symbol of the gay rights movement following the June 28, 1969 Stonewall uprising, in which days of demonstrations were sparked by a police raid on the gay bar.
"What this means is the visitor center is the last piece of the puzzle of the monument. Now we're a whole, and now we can educate and we can speak out." said Kurt Kelly, who now owns the Stonewall Inn.
Stonewall was officially made a national landmark in 2016, and the park across the street from the bar was named the Stonewall National Monument.
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