Posted on Jun 7, 2021
As Reopening Continues, Pride Celebrations Return Cautiously
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The Stonewall Inn isn't having any big, in-person events to kick off Pride Month. It hosted a virtual event instead.
But across the street from the historic bar, a slow stream of visitors stops to admire Greenwich Village's Stonewall National Monument. It's a small, gated park circled by rainbow flags and photographs of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
Steven Love Menendez volunteers at the park.
"My uncle took me here when I was 18 years old on my first trip to New York and told me what the space represented," Menendez says. "And this became like sacred ground."
The Stonewall Inn isn't having any big, in-person events to kick off Pride Month. It hosted a virtual event instead.
But across the street from the historic bar, a slow stream of visitors stops to admire Greenwich Village's Stonewall National Monument. It's a small, gated park circled by rainbow flags and photographs of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
Steven Love Menendez volunteers at the park.
"My uncle took me here when I was 18 years old on my first trip to New York and told me what the space represented," Menendez says. "And this became like sacred ground."
As Reopening Continues, Pride Celebrations Return Cautiously
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