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How the Triad is celebrating Pride Month 2024

9:01pm June 17, 2024

Several upcoming events in the Triad are scheduled for LGBTQ Pride Month. Here's a partial list of happenings in Winston-Salem and Greensboro.

Singer Anita Bryant (right) is led to the voting booth at her Miami Beach polling place by volunteer Leah Dezen in 1977. Bryant was the leader of the opposition group Save Our Children, whose members pushed for the repeal of a gay-rights ordinance in Miam

The Culture Wars Live On Between The LGBTQ Rights Movement And The Religious Right

10:12pm June 20, 2019

by Leila Fadel

An uprising around a New York bar, Stonewall Inn, 50 years ago sparked a movement pushing for LGBTQ civil rights. The success of that movement saw a powerful backlash from the modern religious right.

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A man walks past New York's Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 uprising considered the birth of LGBTQ movement.

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NYPD Commissioner Apologizes For 'Oppressive' 1969 Raid On Stonewall Inn

10:06pm June 06, 2019

New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill admitted police actions were "wrong" during the Stonewall riot, a landmark in the LGBTQ rights movement.

People light candles at a memorial to the Orlando shooting victims outside the Stonewall Inn last week in New York.

Obama Names LGBT Landmark As National Monument

3:49pm June 24, 2016

by Scott Horsley

The Stonewall National Monument in New York City will be the first addition to the National Park System specifically highlighting the history of the LGBT community.