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The Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village bar where resistance to a police raid sparked the modern gay rights movement, was named an official city landmark yesterday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
The unanimous vote followed a long public hearing at which elected officials, longtime LGBT activists, historians and other New Yorkers threw their support behind the proposal and urged the commission to protect the property at 51-53 Christopher St.
The landmarking is the latest milestone for the LGBT movement as it awaits the Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage in the next few days.