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  • (narrator) Fifty years ago, in a tiny bar called the Stonewall Inn,

  • (sirens)

  • LGBTQ people fought back against years of oppression.

  • ♪ (soft music) ♪

  • Today, this history lives on around the world.

  • It lives in moments big...

  • This is who I am!

  • (narrator) ...and small.

  • In voices old...

  • Revolution now!

  • (narrator) ...and new.

  • I'm a queer person.

  • I am so powerful.

  • (Barack Obama) The story of America is a story of progress.

  • Sometimes we can mark that progress in special places.

  • One of these special places is the Stonewall Inn.

  • (Jonathan Jarvis) The first National Monument dedicated

  • to the story of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender community

  • and their fight for equal rights.

  • (crowd cheers)

  • (narrator) New York City's LGBT Community Center,

  • with support from the National Parks Service and Google,

  • is working to preserve this story

  • and bring it to as many people as possible,

  • taking the idea of a National Monument and bringing it to life.

  • ♪ (uplifting music) ♪

  • By digitizing archival materials from the early years of the movement,

  • by capturing the voices at the front of the fight.

  • It felt like you were free. You didn't have to hide anymore.

  • (narrator) By finding voices we've yet to hear.

  • And bringing them all together in a living monument.

  • We're going to stand up and take our own rights into our own hands!

  • Stonewall made us a people. We all knew it was different now.

  • (narrator) For everyone, everywhere,

  • where we all can see the history and add our own.

  • (mouse click)

  • ♪ (music) ♪

(narrator) Fifty years ago, in a tiny bar called the Stonewall Inn,

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