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{{Short description|Gay tavern and monument in New York City}}
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The '''Stonewall Inn''' (also known as '''Stonewall''') is a [[gay bar]] and recreational [[tavern]] at 53 [[Christopher Street]] in the [[Greenwich Village]] neighborhood of [[Lower Manhattan|Lower]] [[Manhattan]] in [[New York City]]. It was the site of the 1969 [[Stonewall riots]], which led to the [[gay liberation]] movement and the modern fight for [[LGBTQ rights in the United States]]. When the riots occurred, Stonewall was one of the relatively few gay bars in New York City. The original gay bar occupied two structures at 51–53 Christopher Street, which were built as horse stables in the 1840s.

The original Stonewall Inn was founded in 1930 as a [[speakeasy]] on [[Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)|Seventh Avenue]] South. It relocated in 1934 to Christopher Street, where it operated as a restaurant until 1966. Four [[American Mafia|mafiosos]] associated with the [[Genovese crime family]] bought the restaurant and reopened it as a gay bar in early 1967. The Stonewall Inn was a popular hangout for gay men, particularly for youth and those on the fringes of the gay community. Stonewall operated as a private club because it was not allowed to obtain a liquor license; police raided the bar frequently, in spite of bribes from the owners. The Stonewall riots of June 28 to July 3, 1969, took place following one such raid.

The bar went out of business shortly after the riots, and the two buildings were divided and leased to various businesses over the years. In 1990, Jimmy Pisano opened a new bar at 53 Christopher Street, which was initially named New Jimmy's before becoming Stonewall. After Pisano's death in 1994, his boyfriend Thomas Garguilo took over the bar, followed by Dominic DeSimone and Bob Gurecki. The Stonewall Inn closed in 2006, and it reopened in March 2007 after Bill Morgan, Tony DeCicco, Kurt Kelly, and [[Stacy Lentz]] acquired the bar. The structure at 51 Christopher Street became a visitor center for the [[Stonewall National Monument]] in the 2020s.

The buildings themselves are architecturally undistinguished, with [[facade]]s of brick and [[stucco]], while the original bar's interior has been modified significantly over the years. The modern bar hosts various events and performances, and its owners also operate an LGBTQ advocacy organization. The Stonewall Inn became a tourist attraction and a symbol of the LGBTQ community after the riots, and various works of media about the bar have been created over the years. In part because of its impact on LGBTQ culture, the Stonewall Inn is the first LGBTQ cultural site designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]] and a [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|New York City designated landmark]]. The bar is also part of the Stonewall National Monument, the first [[List of national monuments of the United States|U.S. National Monument]] dedicated to the [[LGBTQ movements|LGBTQ rights movement]].

== Background and early history ==
[[File:51-53 Christopher Street, NYC, New York in 1928.png|thumb|left|Stonewall Inn buildings in 1928]]The Stonewall Inn buildings at 51–53 Christopher Street, in the [[Greenwich Village]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]] in New York City, were constructed as double-height [[horse stable]]s. The older of the two buildings is 51 Christopher Street, which was built in 1843 by A. Voorhis and expanded to three stories in 1898.<ref name="NYCL p. 6; NPS p. 10">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=6}};{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=10}}</ref> The other structure, 53 Christopher Street, was built in 1846; it was originally used by Mark Spencer before becoming a bakery operated by Baptiste Ycre in 1914. The then-owner of the buildings, Henry J. Harper, hired the architect William Bayard in 1930 to combine and redesign the structures in the [[Arts and Crafts movement|Arts & Crafts]] style.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> The two structures were reclad in [[stucco]], and the third story atop 51 Christopher Street was removed.<ref name="NYCL p. 6; NPS p. 10" /> The ground floor continued to host a bakery until 1933, while the Ycre family lived on the second floor.<ref name="NYCL p. 6">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=6}}</ref>

Meanwhile, Vincent Bonavia had opened Bonnie's Stone Wall (or Bonnie's Stonewall) at 91 [[Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)|Seventh Avenue]] South, near the Christopher Street buildings, in 1930.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> Bonnie's Stonewall might have been named after ''The Stone Wall'', a lesbian autobiography by [[Mary Casal]].<ref name="Wang 2016 g687" /><ref name="Carter p. 8">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=8}}</ref> The historian David Carter wrote that, even in the 1930s, this may have been an attempt to subtly welcome queer women.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=8}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=26}}</ref> The bar was a secret [[speakeasy]] that illegally sold alcohol during [[Prohibition in the United States]];<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /><ref name="Giannotta 2019 i277">{{cite web |last=Giannotta |first=Meghan |date=June 24, 2019 |title=Secrets of the Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.amny.com/secrets-of-new-york/secrets-of-the-stonewall-inn-1.11892767 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618140436/https://www.amny.com/secrets-of-new-york/secrets-of-the-stonewall-inn-1.11892767 |archive-date=June 18, 2016 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=amNewYork}}</ref> as a consequence, it was raided in December 1930.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 7, 1930 |title=Nine Resorts in Village Visited by Dry Raiders: Hofbrau Boboli Gardens and Annex Yield Prisoners |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=3 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1113765972}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=December 7, 1930 |title=Village Hofbrau and Eight More Resorts Raided |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-village-hofbrau/143040543/ |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |pages=20 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309235418/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-village-hofbrau/143040543/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=December 7, 1930 |title=Raids Spike the Village's Week-end Drinks |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112295568/raids-spike-the-villages-week-end-drink/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227110830/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112295568/raids-spike-the-villages-week-end/ |archive-date=February 27, 2023 |access-date=October 30, 2022 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |page=20}}</ref> Bonavia relocated to 51–53 Christopher Street in 1934, after Prohibition was repealed. The architect Harry Yarish installed a large vertical sign on the facade and a doorway with columns around the entrance to 53 Christopher Street. The interior was designed in the style of a hunting lodge.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" />

The [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] (LPC) wrote that, despite a lack of documentation on Stonewall's early history, "sources suggest that it was among the most notorious of the tearooms operating in the Village in the early 1930s".<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=15}}</ref> The restaurant hosted various banquets and weddings,<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> as well as events including a 1935 dinner for the Greenwich Village Association<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 21, 1935 |title=Moses Reassures Critics; Declares Basic Design of Washington Park Won't Be Changed. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/05/21/archives/moses-reassures-critics-declares-basic-design-of-washington-park.html |access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310235124/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/05/21/archives/moses-reassures-critics-declares-basic-design-of-washington-park.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and a 1961 reunion party for performers involved with the play ''[[Summer and Smoke]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=November 20, 1961 |title=Geraldine Page Attends Smoke Benefit Opening |magazine=Boxoffice |pages=E-2 |volume=80 |issue=5 |id={{ProQuest|1670957520}}}}</ref> The eatery had become Bonnie's Stonewall Inn by the 1940s and the Stonewall Inn Restaurant by the 1950s or 1960s.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=8}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=10}}; {{harvnb|ps=.|Todd|2020|p=26}}</ref> The interior of the restaurant was destroyed by fire in the 1960s,<ref name="Stonewall50 p. 2">{{harvnb|Stonewall 50 Consortium|2019|ps=.|p=2}}</ref><ref name="Carter p. 67">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=67}}</ref> and the structures at 51 through 61 Christopher Street were sold in March 1965.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /><ref name="NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project">{{Cite web |title=Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/stonewall-inn-christopher-park/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613164616/https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/stonewall-inn-christopher-park/ |archive-date=June 13, 2019 |access-date=May 16, 2019 |website=NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project |language=en-US}}</ref> Sources disagree over whether the new owner was Burt and Lucille Handelsman<ref name="NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project" /> or Joel Weiser.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> The restaurant had definitely shuttered by 1966.<ref name="NYCL p. 6; NPS p. 10" /> After the restaurant closed, the buildings were vacant;<ref name="Carter p. 67" /> the signs above the ground-story windows were removed, and the second story of the facade was patched.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" />

== Original gay bar ==

=== Renovation and conversion ===
Greenwich Village had become an [[Gay village|LGBTQ neighborhood]] as early as the 1930s.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=5}}</ref> The neighborhood's LGBTQ community was originally concentrated around [[Greenwich Avenue]] and [[Washington Square Park]], but, by the 1960s, had started to move westward along Christopher Street.<ref name="NPS p. 11" /> To cater to the growing LGBTQ community, in 1966, four [[American Mafia|mafiosos]] associated with the [[Genovese crime family]] paid $3,500 for the Stonewall Inn, turning the restaurant into a gay bar.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=6}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=67}}</ref> The team of owners were led by "Fat Tony" Lauria;<ref name="Todd p. 26">{{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=26}}</ref><ref name="Author 2004 n725">{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=Lincoln |date=June 22, 2004 |title='I'm Sorry,' Says Inspector Who Led Stonewall Raid |url=https://www.amny.com/news/im-sorry-says-inspector-who-led-stonewall-raid/ |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=amNewYork |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528222133/https://www.amny.com/news/im-sorry-says-inspector-who-led-stonewall-raid/ |url-status=live}}</ref> he paid $2,000 for the restaurant, and three other mobsters named Zookie Zarfas, Tony the Sniff, and Joey paid $500 each.<ref name="Carter pp. 67–68">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=67–68}}</ref> It was one of several gay bars operated by the Genovese syndicate in New York City.<ref name="Duberman p. 183">{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|ps=.|p=183}}</ref> [[Matthew Ianniello|Matty Ianniello]], a Genovese mafioso who controlled various mob-operated bars,<ref>{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=Lincoln |date=September 27, 2012 |title=Matthew Ianniello, 92, Mobster Said to Own Stonewall Inn in '69 |url=https://www.amny.com/news/matthew-ianniello-92-mobster-said-to-own-stonewall-inn-in-69/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=amNewYork |archive-date=March 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318214328/https://www.amny.com/news/matthew-ianniello-92-mobster-said-to-own-stonewall-inn-in-69/ |url-status=live }}</ref> collected a portion of the bar's profits.<ref name="Carter pp. 67–68" />

The owners believed that a business catering to the LGBTQ community might be profitable;<ref name="Todd p. 26" /><ref name="Span1994">{{Cite news |last=Span |first=Paula |date=June 22, 1994 |title=Greenwich Time |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/06/22/greenwich-time/18af5293-7430-4d7f-8423-ba436a6f2033/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=March 9, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250227202416/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/06/22/greenwich-time/18af5293-7430-4d7f-8423-ba436a6f2033/ |archive-date= 27 February 2025 }}</ref> in return, they demanded regular [[extortion|payoffs]] for protection.<ref name="amex">{{Cite web |title=Why Did the Mafia Own the Bar? {{!}} American Experience |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-why-did-mafia-own-bar/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103041316/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-why-did-mafia-own-bar/ |archive-date=November 3, 2019 |access-date=November 21, 2019 |publisher=PBS  |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Giannotta 2019 i277" /> Stonewall's owners could not obtain a liquor license because state law in the 1960s did not allow bartenders to legally serve LGBTQ people.<ref name="Carter p. 68">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=68}}</ref><ref name="Stonewall50 p. 3" /> At the time, the [[New York State Liquor Authority]] (NYSLA) regarded any LGBTQ person in a bar as engaging in disorderly conduct.<ref name="nyt-2022-11-21">{{Cite news |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=November 21, 2022 |title=Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/arts/design/greenwich-village-history.html |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311004205/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/arts/design/greenwich-village-history.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NRHP Julius Bar">{{cite report |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/cc582844-1975-4a04-8735-3e67e6c9d25f |title=Historic Structures Report: Julius' Bar |date=March 24, 2016 |publisher=[[National Register of Historic Places]], [[National Park Service]] |page=18 |access-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311004205/https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/cc582844-1975-4a04-8735-3e67e6c9d25f |url-status=live}}</ref> Frequent raids against gay bars forced most to close, except for those operated by mobsters.<ref name="NRHP Julius Bar" /> Furthermore, gay people who were arrested risked losing their jobs, homes, and families.<ref>{{harvnb|Amsel|1987|ps=.|p=38}}</ref><ref name="nyt-1994-06-23">{{Cite news |last=Bragg |first=Rick |date=June 23, 1994 |title=From a Night of Rage, The Seeds of Liberation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/23/nyregion/from-a-night-of-rage-the-seeds-of-liberation.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=July 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702211732/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/23/nyregion/from-a-night-of-rage-the-seeds-of-liberation.html |url-status=live}}</ref> By contrast, members of private clubs could bring their own alcoholic beverages under New York state law.<ref name="NYCL p. 7">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=7}}</ref><ref name="Lynch 2019 g721">{{cite news |last=Lynch |first=Suzanne |date=June 29, 2019 |title=Stonewall Riots Key Step on Road to Equal Rights |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/stonewall-riots-key-step-on-road-to-equal-rights-1.3940611 |access-date=March 18, 2024 |newspaper=The Irish Times |archive-date=March 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318235012/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/stonewall-riots-key-step-on-road-to-equal-rights-1.3940611 |url-status=live }}</ref> Accordingly, Lauria and his co-owners acquired a private club's license for Stonewall, as they intended to serve LGBTQ people without obtaining a license from the NYSLA.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=7}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=68}}</ref>

After acquiring the buildings, the owners renovated the exterior, blacked out the windows for privacy, and reinforced the wooden front doors with steel plates in anticipation of police raids.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|pp=6–7}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=69}}</ref> The new operators added [[peephole]]s and several locks to the front doors,<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=7}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=69}}</ref> and they removed the columns that flanked the original entrance.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|pp=6–7}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=68}}</ref> The operators also placed 2×4 pieces of wood behind the windows so the police could not easily enter through the windows during a raid.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=7}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=68–69}}</ref> The interior was painted black because that color was used in other gay bars and it would hide the interior's burn damage.<ref>{{harvnb|Amsel|1987|ps=|p=39}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=67}}</ref> The new owners retained the Stonewall Restaurant's old name so they did not have to replace the exterior sign (although the word "restaurant" was officially dropped from the name, that word was not painted over on the sign).<ref name="Carter p. 68" /> At the time of the conversion, LGBTQ bars and straight bars had similar facades, though LGBTQ bars tended to have an intentionally rundown appearance so straight patrons would be discouraged from going to these bars.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=16}}; {{Harvnb|Lustbader|1993|ps=.|pp=54, 55, 58, 61}}</ref>

=== Operation ===
[[File:Stonewall Inn 2012 with gay-pride flags and banner.jpg|alt=The exterior of Stonewall Inn in 2012, with a LGBTQ rights sign above the entrance|thumb|The exterior of Stonewall Inn in 2012. At the time of Stonewall's conversion into a gay bar, the facade was nondescript.<ref name="Mayer 1969" />]]
Stonewall opened as a gay bar on March 18, 1967.<ref>{{Harvnb|Carter|2004|p=77}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=26}}</ref> It had two dance floors<ref name="Carter p. 77">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=77}}</ref> in addition to a long bar, jukebox, tables, and seating booths.<ref name="Mayer 1969">{{Cite news |last=Mayer |first=Robert |date=June 30, 1969 |title=A Hot Weekend in the Village |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-the-first-pride/79457616/ |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=133 |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309235419/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-the-first-pride/79457616/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The facade was nondescript, and the only external indication of the club's existence was a small sign proclaiming that it was a private, members-only club.<ref name="Mayer 1969" /> When it opened, Stonewall "was a small gay bar just like any other", as the LGBTQ newspaper ''[[Gay News]]'' would later describe it.<ref name="Gay News 1974">{{cite news |date=July 4, 1974 |title=GN's Second Birthday and Stonewall's Fifth |work=Gay News |page=1 |id={{ProQuest|2242662256}}}}</ref> Its manager was Ed Murphy (also known as the Skull), an ex-convict who was known for sitting motionless around the bar and watching patrons.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=89}}</ref>

==== Clientele ====
Visitors were greeted by [[Bouncer (doorman)|bouncers]] who inspected them through the peepholes in the door.<ref>{{Harvnb|Carter|2004|p=68}}; {{harvnb|Duberman|1993|p=187}}</ref> The bouncers accepted almost any LGBTQ individual who wanted to enter,<ref name="Carter p. 68" /> but they screened out straight patrons and undercover police officers.<ref>{{Harvnb|Carter|2004|p=69}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> Admission was granted to would-be patrons who "looked gay" or who had visited the club before,<ref name="Carter p. 69">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=69}}</ref> as well as new patrons who were accompanied by someone that could vouch for them.<ref name="NPS p. 11">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> People under the [[Legal drinking age in the United States|legal drinking age]] were frequently admitted.<ref name="NPS p. 11" /><ref name="Amsel p. 44">{{harvnb|Amsel|1987|ps=.|p=44}}</ref> In keeping with private club regulations, patrons were required to sign a logbook upon entry;<ref name="amex" /><ref name="Stonewall50 p. 3" /> the logbook also served to screen out straight patrons.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=69–70}}</ref> The visitor logbook frequently contained pseudonyms such as [[Donald Duck]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]], and [[Judy Garland]].<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|pp=69–70}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> If a visitor wished to leave the bar and return the same night, the bouncers would stamp their hand with individual ink.<ref name="Carter p. 69" /> Any customer who passed the screening process paid an admission fee of $3 on weekends and $1 on weekdays.<ref>{{Harvnb|Carter|2004|p=69}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=28}}</ref>

Patrons were predominantly in their teens or early twenties, though men in their late twenties and early thirties congregated around the main room's bar.<ref name="Carter p. 70" />  Most patrons were young gay men of various races and occupations, though Stonewall did also accept women (regardless of sexuality), [[transsexual]]s, and [[Transvestism|transvestites]].<ref name="NYCL p. 7" /><ref name="Carter p. 74">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=74}}</ref> It is unknown to what extent women patronized the bar, though several observers interviewed by David Carter described the bar as being almost exclusively male.<ref>{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|p=188}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=74–75}}</ref> These observers also said that almost all of the lesbians at Stonewall were [[butch lesbian]]s.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=74–75}}</ref> Due to differing terminologies used in the late 1960s, it is also unknown to what extent transvestites visited the bar, but Carter writes that the number of transsexual and transvestite customers was not insignificant.<ref name="Carter pp. 75–76">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=75–76}}</ref>{{efn|Carter writes that Stonewall's customers were frequently described as "queens" but that, in the late 1960s, the word "queen" was used mainly to describe gay men who did not dress in a typically masculine way. By the 2000s, the word had become shorthand for a [[drag queen]].<ref name="Carter pp. 75–76" />}} Many homeless young men slept across the street in Christopher Park<ref>{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|p=188}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=12}}</ref> and would often try to enter so customers would buy them drinks.<ref>{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|ps=.|p=188}}</ref>

The Stonewall Inn was a popular hangout for gay men.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=80}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|pp=26–28}}</ref> The bar was called "one of the most active spots in town currently; very crowded on weekends" in a 1968 guidebook,<ref>{{harvnb|Mattachine Society of New York|1968|p=8}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|pp=11–12}}</ref> and it was New York City's only gay bar that allowed open dancing.<ref>{{harvnb|Echols|2010|p=44}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Gavin |first=James |date=April 1, 2010 |title=Disco and the Remaking of American Culture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Gavin-t.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105205536/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Gavin-t.html |url-status=live}}</ref> It was also located on a busy road and was cheaper than comparable gay bars.<ref>{{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|pp=26–28}}</ref> The artist [[Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt]] recalled that Stonewall was one of the only bars in the city where couples could [[slow dance]] together,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barbanel |first=Josh |date=June 22, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn, Historic Gay Site, May Become New York City Landmark |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/stonewall-inn-historic-gay-site-may-become-new-york-city-landmark-1434931221 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309195157/https://www.wsj.com/articles/stonewall-inn-historic-gay-site-may-become-new-york-city-landmark-1434931221 |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|1690157023}}}}</ref> while the historian [[Martin Duberman]] said that the bar was frequented by a "non-vanilla mix of people: people in suits and ties, street hustlers, drag queens, a few dope pushers, a fair number of nonwhites".<ref name="Span1994" /> The ''[[New York Daily News]]'' called the bar a "mecca" for the LGBT community in the neighborhood,<ref name="Lisker 1969">{{Cite news |last=Lisker |first=Jerry |date=July 6, 1969 |title=Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-homo-nest-raided-queen-bees/20597252/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309190359/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-homo-nest-raided-queen-bees/20597252/ |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=113}}</ref> and ''[[Newsday]]'' wrote that "Here the young men with the delicate wrists and the bobby pins in their hair come to dance the night away with one another".<ref name="Mayer 1969" /> One contemporary patron described the bar as being accepting of "anyone who was in the margins of gay society", but that this gave the bar a "trashy, low, and tawdry" feel.<ref name="Carter p. 74" /> Homeless youth and drag queens frequented the bar by 1969;<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=86}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|pp=11–12}}</ref> it was one of the only places where they were socially accepted,<ref>{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|pp=11–12}}</ref> and the admission fee meant that additional drinks did not require a [[Invoice|tab]].<ref name="Giannotta 2019 i277" /> Other LGBTQ patrons shunned Stonewall because of its mob ownership and the drag queens' presence.<ref>{{harvnb|Echols|2010|ps=.|pp=47–48}}</ref>

==== Ambiance and activities ====
As a private club, Stonewall was not legally allowed to accept money for drinks,<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=78}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> and each customer was given two tickets that could be exchanged for drinks.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=69}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> Different-colored tickets were used each day to prevent patrons from saving up drink tickets.<ref name="Carter p. 69" /> The Stonewall Inn's operators pressured customers to buy drinks almost as soon as they entered. Each drink cost a dollar, more than in contemporary bars, even though they were watered-down drinks that were, in many cases, acquired illegally.<ref name="Carter p. 72">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=72}}</ref> The owners could earn up to $5,000 on Fridays and $6,500 on Saturdays,<ref name="NPS p. 11" /><ref>{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|ps=.|p=185}}</ref> and, given the monthly rent of $300, recouped their $3,500 investment soon after opening.<ref>{{Harvnb|Carter|2004|p=77}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=28}}</ref> The cash registers were taken the first time the [[New York City Police Department]] (NYPD) raided the bar; thereafter, Stonewall's income was stored in cigar boxes.<ref name="NPS p. 11" /><ref name="Carter p. 78" /> The activist [[Craig Rodwell]] described Stonewall as "one of the [...] more financially lucrative of the Mafia's gay bars in Manhattan".<ref name="Carter p. 78">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=78}}</ref>

The spaces were poorly lit, giving it the impression of a [[dive bar]].<ref name="NYCL p. 7" /><ref name="Carter p. 72" /> At the rear of the bar, the men's restroom had its own attendant, and the women's restroom had a red lightbulb.<ref name="Carter pp. 72–73">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=72–73}}</ref> The main room's bar lacked running water, forcing barkeeps to run dirty glasses through rubber tubs and immediately reuse them.<ref>{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|p=181}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=30}}</ref> The bar had a poor sound system, and the toilets were regularly clogged, giving the Stonewall Inn a reputation for filthiness.<ref name="Carter p. 80">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=80}}</ref> The buildings, at the time, did not have a rear emergency exit, which not only precluded Stonewall from receiving a liquor license<ref name="The Advocate 1973">{{Cite magazine |date=August 15, 1973 |title=Stonewall 'Historic'? |magazine=The Advocate |page=16 |issue=118 |id={{ProQuest|2371028473}}}}</ref> but also created a fire hazard.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=81}}; {{harvnb|Echols|2010|ps=.|p=44}}</ref> Additionally, the bar's employees were known to have engaged in blackmail.<ref name="amex" /><ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|pp=96–97}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|p=30|ps=.}}</ref> In the 1969 edition of the [[Mattachine Society|New York Mattachine Society]]'s guidebook to gay clubs around the city, there was a notation advising would-be patrons against giving out any personally identifying information at the Stonewall Inn, especially to employees.<ref name="Carter pp. 96–97">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=96–97}}</ref> The bar was not openly used for prostitution, but drug sales and other cash transactions did take place,<ref name="amex" /><ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=81}}</ref> and Carter wrote that "there is little doubt" that a prostitution ring operated out of the second story.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=98}}</ref> Six months before the Stonewall riots, the bar had reportedly been the source of a small outbreak of [[hepatitis]].<ref name="Amsel p. 39">{{harvnb|Amsel|1987|ps=.|p=39}}</ref>

Despite the poor conditions, the Stonewall Inn's popularity endured.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=7}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=80}}</ref> Stonewall was the only bar for gay men in New York City where dancing was allowed,<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=87}}; {{harvnb|Duberman|1993|ps=.|p=182}}</ref> and dancing was its main draw after it opened as a gay club.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=71}}</ref> Of the [[#Interior|two bar rooms]], the main room to the east typically played mainstream rock.<ref name="NYCL p. 7; Carter p. 73">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=7}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=73}}</ref> There was a jukebox behind the bar in the main room; patrons could pay to have a song played on the jukebox.<ref name="Carter p. 70" /> In addition to dancing, the main room was a popular place for gay men to congregate and [[Cruising for sex|cruise]], and there were a small number of tables with candles.<ref name="Carter p. 72" /> There was typically a single waiter in the main room, which was often called the "white room" because of its music and clientele.<ref name="Carter p. 73">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=73}}</ref><ref name="Echols p. 258">{{harvnb|Echols|2010|ps=.|p=258}}</ref>

The back room, to the west, mostly played [[soul music]].<ref name="NYCL p. 7; Carter p. 73" /> It was called the black room or the Puerto Rican room, as it was frequented by black and Hispanic customers, as well as youth.<ref>{{Harvnb|Carter|2004|p=73}}; {{harvnb|Echols|2010|ps=.|p=258}}</ref> The back room was even more dimly lit than the main room, and it had numerous waiters, all of whom cajoled guests to buy drinks.<ref name="Carter p. 73" /> The south end of the back room, near Christopher Street, was occupied by "the most marginal of the Stonewall's customers".<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=73–74}}</ref> Around 1968, the owners removed a partition in 51 Christopher Street to create a dance floor, while another partition was installed in 53 Christopher Street.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=16}}; {{Harvnb|Lustbader|1993|ps=.|p=153}}</ref> Alice Echols, in a 2010 book, cited the two dance floors as possibly having "helped to undermine the sort of sexual indirection and repression that characterized most gay bars".<ref>{{harvnb|Echols|2010|ps=.|p=46}}</ref>

==== Bribes and raids ====
The bar's lack of a license made it vulnerable to police raids.<ref name="Amsel p. 39" /> The owners gave cash bribes to the NYPD's 6th Precinct (within which the bar was located) to stave off raids.<ref name="amex" /><ref name="Carter pp. 78–79">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=78–79}}</ref> A magazine article, published five months after the bar's opening, implied that the bar paid the police around $1,200 a month.<ref>{{Harvnb|Carter|2004|pp=78–79}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|p=30}}</ref> Some observers such as the activist [[Craig Rodwell]] objected to the payoffs because of the corruption involved.<ref name="Todd p. 30">{{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=30}}</ref> In addition, despite these payoffs, Stonewall was raided once a month on average,<ref>{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|p=183}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=30}}</ref><ref name="amex" /> and it was raided even more frequently before elections or when local residents complained.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=7}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=82}}</ref> [[Seymour Pine]], a police inspector who later led the raid that caused the [[Stonewall riots]], said his team frequently raided gay bars because LGBTQ people did not fight back when they were arrested.<ref name="Author 2004 n725" /><ref name="nyt-1994-06-23" /> Pine recalled that limousines carrying wealthy patrons would come to the bar on Saturdays, so he tried to avoid raiding the bar on these nights.<ref name="Author 2004 n725" />

The bar's management usually knew about raids beforehand due to police tip-offs, and raids occurred early enough in the evening that business could commence after the police had finished.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|pp=82–83}}; {{harvnb|Duberman|1993|ps=.|pp=192–193}}</ref> There were white floodlights inside the bar, which could be activated in case of a raid.<ref>{{Harvnb|Carter|2004|p=69}}; {{harvnb|Duberman|1993|p=187}}; {{harvnb|Todd|2020|ps=.|p=30}}</ref> Many bars kept extra liquor nearby so they could resume business as quickly as possible if alcohol was seized.<ref name="Duberman p. 183" /><ref name="amex" /> During a typical raid, the lights were turned on, and customers were lined up and their identification cards checked. Those without identification were often arrested, along with the bar's staff.<ref name="Duberman pp. 192–193">{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|ps=.|pp=192–193}}</ref> Also liable to be arrested were people who did not wear at least three pieces of gender-conforming clothing, such as men in full drag.<ref name="Giannotta 2019 i277" /><ref name="Duberman pp. 192–193" /> Anyone who was detained in a raid was often released within hours, and as a result the staff were unconcerned about being arrested.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=82–83}}</ref>

By June 1969, campaigning for [[1969 New York City mayoral election|that year's mayoral election]] had precipitated frequent raids in local bars,<ref name="NPS p. 13">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=13}}</ref> including one at the Stonewall Inn less than a week before the Stonewall riots.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=124–125}}</ref> The raids targeted not only gay bars but also straight bars frequented by minorities,<ref name="Amsel p. 44" /> and several clubs in Greenwich Village closed because of these raids.<ref name="Teal p. 4">{{harvnb|Teal|1971|ps=.|p=4}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 1969b">{{Cite news |date=June 29, 1969 |title=4 Policemen Hurt in 'Village' Raid; Melee Near Sheridan Square Follows Action at Bar |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/06/29/archives/4-policemen-hurt-in-village-raid-melee-near-sheridan-square-follows.html |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104093506/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/06/29/archives/4-policemen-hurt-in-village-raid-melee-near-sheridan-square-follows.html |url-status=live}}</ref> According to Rodwell and the novelist [[Edmund White]], the new captain of the NYPD's 6th Precinct had ordered the raids in Greenwich Village.<ref name="NPS p. 13" /> In a 1987 retrospective, Robert Amsel wrote in the LGBTQ magazine ''[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]]'' that many LGBTQ people were in favor of the raids because they did not want the bars to be operated by the mafia; according to Amsel, these critics did not see that "without the mafia's money, there might not have been any gay bars to legitimize".<ref name="Amsel p. 39" />

=== Uprising ===
{{Main|Stonewall riots}}
[[File:Stonewall Inn raid sign pride weekend 2016.jpg|thumb|alt=A framed sign on a brick wall. It reads, in all capital letters, "This is a Raided Premises. Police Dep't. City of New York. Howard R. Leary. Police Commissioner".|A "Raided Premises" sign hung inside the modern Stonewall Inn, 2016]]

The Stonewall riots started in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969.<ref name="The New York Times 1969b" /><ref name="Carter p. 137" /> According to a ''Daily News'' article from the time, the NYPD had obtained a warrant to raid the bar because it was illegally serving liquor;<ref name="Lisker 1969" /> later accounts said the raid was precipitated by an anonymous tip that the Mafia was trading stolen [[Bond (finance)|bonds]].<ref name="Author 2004 n725" /><ref name="Echols p. 258" /> In any case, it was the first time the NYPD did not give the managers advance notice of a raid.<ref>{{harvnb|Echols|2010|ps=.|p=45}}</ref> Around 1:20&nbsp;a.m., a team of eight undercover officers, led by Pine, raided the bar.<ref name="Carter p. 137">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=137}}</ref> As was customary, the police began to check patrons' identification.<ref name="NPS p. 13" /><ref name="Carter pp. 141–142" /> The routine raid did not go as planned, as patrol wagons for the arrested patrons took longer to arrive than expected.<ref name="Carter pp. 141–142">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=141–142}}</ref> A scuffle broke out when a [[Butch dyke|butch lesbian]] in handcuffs was escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon several times.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|pp=151–152}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Truscott |first=Lucian K. IV |date=June 28, 2017 |title=The Night They Busted Stonewall |url=http://www.salon.com/2017/06/28/the-night-they-busted-stonewall/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322174414/https://www.salon.com/2017/06/28/the-night-they-busted-stonewall/ |archive-date=March 22, 2020 |access-date=July 1, 2017 |work=Salon}}</ref> The police tried to restrain some of the crowd and knocked a few people down, which incited bystanders even more.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=154}}</ref> Eventually, the police were barricaded inside;<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=175}}</ref> the crowd was not cleared until 4:00&nbsp;a.m.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=180}}</ref>

Almost everything in the Stonewall Inn was broken in the riots,<ref name="NPS p. 15">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=15}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Teal|1971|p=3}}; {{harvnb|Duberman|1993|ps=.|p=202}}</ref> and what little liquor remained was given away for free afterward.<ref name="Leitsch 1969">{{Cite magazine |last=Leitsch |first=Dick |date=September 1, 1969 |title=Police Raid on N.Y. Club Sets Off First Gay Riot |magazine=Los Angeles Advocate |pages=3, 11, 12 |volume=3 |issue=8 |id={{ProQuest|2371004229}}}}</ref> Stonewall's windows were covered with boards the night of the riots,<ref name="NPS p. 15" /> and [[graffiti]]ed messages in support of LGBT rights and gay bars appeared on the bar's facade the day afterward.<ref name="The New York Times 1969a">{{Cite news |date=June 30, 1969 |title=Police Again Rout 'Village' Youths; Outbreak by 400 Follows a Near-Riot Over Raid |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/06/30/archives/police-again-rout-village-youths-outbreak-by-400-follows-a-nearriot.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010050212/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/06/30/archives/police-again-rout-village-youths-outbreak-by-400-follows-a-nearriot.html |archive-date=October 10, 2023 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Teal p. 4" /> The riot was covered in the city's major media outlets, including in radio and newspapers.<ref name="NPS p. 15" /><ref name="Teal p. 4" /> Another demonstration took place on June 29;<ref name="The New York Times 1969a" /><ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=184}}</ref> it attracted hundreds of protesters of all sexualities.<ref name="NPS p. 15" /><ref name="Leitsch 1969" /> Activity in Greenwich Village was sporadic over the next two days due to inclement weather,<ref>{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|ps=.|p=205}}</ref><ref name="Stonewall50 p. 3">{{harvnb|Stonewall 50 Consortium|2019|ps=.|p=3}}</ref> but another riot took place on July 2.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 3, 1969 |title=Hostile Crowd Dispersed Near Sheridan Square |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/07/03/archives/hostile-crowd-dispersed-near-sheridan-square.html |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309190359/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/07/03/archives/hostile-crowd-dispersed-near-sheridan-square.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NPS p. 16">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=16}}</ref> The riots ultimately ended on July 3, when the NYPD dispersed the protests.<ref name="NPS p. 16" /> [[Allen Ginsberg]], a [[beat poet]] who witnessed the riots, said that "the guys there were so beautiful—they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago".<ref name="Gay News 1974" /><ref name="NPS p. 17">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=17}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Teal|1971|ps=.|p=7}}</ref>

== After the riots ==

=== 1960s to 1980s ===

==== Closure and relocation ====
[[File:Stonewall Miami Beach 1973.jpg|thumb|Stonewall Miami Beach before the 1974 fire|alt=A sign inside the Stonewall Inn's 1970s location at Miami Beach, Florida]]
By the end of 1969, the Stonewall Inn had closed; sources disagree on whether it was shuttered in October<ref name="Carter252">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=252}}</ref><ref name="NYCL p. 11">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> or in December.<ref name="nyt-2015-06-05">{{Cite news |last=Kilgannon |first=Corey |date=June 5, 2015 |title=A Defender of Stonewall, And Himself |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/nyregion/a-defender-of-stonewall-and-himself.html |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311204344/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/nyregion/a-defender-of-stonewall-and-himself.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Carter writes that the bar's downfall may have been because of its infamy, the fact that it had no liquor license, and resentment toward the mafiosos who operated the bar.<ref name="Carter252" /> Pine claimed that he had been ordered to raid the bar because it was blackmailing wealthy patrons, but Carter could not find evidence to corroborate this claim.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=262}}</ref> A ''Newsday'' article from 1970 described Stonewall as "still a battered, broken place, with a ''For Rent'' sign on it now".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mayer |first=Robert |date=June 30, 1970 |title=Out of the Closets, Into the Streets |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-out-of-the-clos/143172281/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=106 |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311222804/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-out-of-the-clos/143172281/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Another Stonewall opened at 211 22nd Street in [[Miami Beach]], Florida, in 1972<ref name="fire">{{cite news |date=March 3, 1974 |title=Club Destroyed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112299075/club-destroyed/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031033835/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112299075/club-destroyed/ |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |access-date=October 30, 2022 |newspaper=[[Miami Herald]] |page=1-B |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> with the same manager.<ref>{{cite web | last=Andrews | first=Stefan | title=The Stonewall Inn: The birthplace of gay rights movement | website=Vintage News | date=2017-04-09 | url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/04/09/the-stonewall-inn-the-birthplace-of-gay-rights-movement/ | access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> Two patrons there filed a lawsuit against the local police chief in 1973, asserting malicious harassment.<ref>{{cite news |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112299719/suit-charges-beach-harassment-of-homosex/ |title=Suit Charges Beach Harassment of Homosexuals |first=Roberto |last=Fabricio |newspaper=[[Miami Herald]] |page=2-B |date=May 27, 1973 |access-date=October 30, 2022 |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224145234/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-suit-charges-beach-hara/112299719/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Miami Beach establishment burned down shortly before 7:00&nbsp;a.m. on March 2, 1974, following a suspected [[arson]].<ref name="fire" /><ref>{{cite news |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112299345/nightclub-destroyed/ |title=Nightclub Destroyed |newspaper=[[Miami Herald]] |page=2-B |date=March 3, 1974 |access-date=October 30, 2022 |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031033834/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112299345/nightclub-destroyed/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Commercial conversion ====
Manny E. Duell, the operator of a [[holding company]] named 51 to 61 Christopher Corp., took over the buildings in March 1970.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 18, 1970 |title=Deed; Grantor: Manny E Duell; Grantee: 51 to 61 Christopher |url=https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentImageView?doc_id=FT_1130008471813 |access-date=January 1, 2021 |publisher=New York City Department of Finance; Office of the City Register |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201756/https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentImageView?doc_id=FT_1130008471813 |url-status=live}}</ref>  The owners submitted alteration plans to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and the [[New York City Department of Buildings]] in late 1970, as they sought to convert 51 to 53 Christopher Street into a restaurant and non-alcoholic bar. The new venue would have retained most of the 1967 bar's interior decorations, but the architects planned to replace the damaged doors and windows.<ref>{{Cite report |last=Landmarks Preservation Commission Preservation Department |title=51–53 Christopher Street Geo File, Docket 70–287 |year=1970 |publisher=[[New York City Department of Buildings]] |postscript=,}} cited in {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> By 1973, the original gay bar had been divided into two storefronts at the ground level and apartments on the second story. The [[Gay Activists Alliance]] planned to install a plaque on the buildings, as it did not have enough money to buy the structures for preservation purposes.<ref name="The Advocate 1973" />  There were numerous attempts to install a commemorative plaque or a statue on or near the bar buildings, but these efforts received criticisms for failing to sufficiently acknowledge nonwhite or [[transgender]] people.<ref name="Wang 2016 g687">{{cite web |last=Wang |first=Hansi Lo |date=May 30, 2016 |title=Long A Symbol, Stonewall Inn May Soon Become Monument To LGBTQ Rights |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/05/30/479723175/long-a-symbol-stonewall-inn-may-soon-become-monument-to-lgbt-rights |access-date=March 16, 2024 |publisher=NPR |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224094614/https://www.npr.org/2016/05/30/479723175/long-a-symbol-stonewall-inn-may-soon-become-monument-to-lgbt-rights |url-status=live}}</ref>

LPC documents show that, in 1975, Duell leased out the two storefronts there as distinct spaces.<ref>{{Cite report |last=Landmarks Preservation Commission Preservation Department |title=51–53 Christopher Street Geo File, Docket 75–129 |year=1975 |publisher=[[New York City Department of Buildings]] |postscript=,}} cited in {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> Thereafter, the buildings were used by a variety of businesses,<ref name="Murphy 1989">{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=William |date=April 13, 1989 |title=Manhattan Closeup Stonewall Place' to Honor Gay Uprising 20 Years Ago |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |page=29 |id={{ProQuest|278096053}}}}</ref><ref name="The Gazette 1994">{{Cite news |date=June 27, 1994 |title=At Stonewall, The Police Are Now Welcome |work=The London Gazette |page=A9 |id={{ProQuest|432658772}}}}</ref> and subsequent renovations removed all of the original gay bar's decorations.<ref name="CBS News 2019 e171">{{cite web |date=June 27, 2019 |title=Stonewall Inn's March from Illicit Dive to National Monument |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stonewall-inns-march-from-illicit-dive-bar-to-national-monument/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |publisher=CBS News |archive-date=March 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318235012/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stonewall-inns-march-from-illicit-dive-bar-to-national-monument/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Press 2019 f373">{{cite web |title=The Stonewall's Path from Illicit Dive to National Monument |website=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |date=June 28, 2019 |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-stonewall-inn-anniversary-20190628-story.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201756/https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-stonewall-inn-anniversary-20190628-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Documents indicate that the owners of 51 Christopher Street filed plans to widen that building's entrance in August 1975.<ref>{{Cite report |last=Landmarks Preservation Commission Preservation Department |title=51–53 Christopher Street Geo File, Docket 75–260 |year=1975 |publisher=[[New York City Department of Buildings]] |postscript=,}} cited in {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> The structure at 53 Christopher had become a bagel shop known as Bagels And by 1976.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Oser |first=Alan S. |date=March 17, 1976 |title=About Real Estate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/17/archives/about-real-estate-how-irish-importers-and-israeli-bagel-makers-find.html |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311204344/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/17/archives/about-real-estate-how-irish-importers-and-israeli-bagel-makers-find.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Mimi Sheraton]], in a ''New York Times'' article from that year, described 53 Christopher Street as having wood-paneled walls, wood columns, and rhombus-shaped mirrors, giving the appearance of a "never-ending abstract forest".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |date=August 31, 1976 |title=You Can't Judge a Bagel By the Decor Around It |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/31/archives/you-cant-judge-a-bagel-by-the-decor-around-it.html |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311222803/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/31/archives/you-cant-judge-a-bagel-by-the-decor-around-it.html |url-status=live}}</ref>  A commemorative plaque was installed on the facade in 1979 on the tenth anniversary of the riots.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 24, 1979 |title=Gays Remember '69 Riot |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-item-gays-remember-69-riot/143171166/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=The Daily Item |pages=9 |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311222805/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-item-gays-remember-69-riot/143171166/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

After serving as a bagel shop, 53 Christopher Street became a Chinese restaurant,<ref name="Stonewall50 p. 4" /><ref name="nyt-1997-07-29">{{Cite news |last=Halbfinger |first=David M. |date=July 29, 1997 |title=For a Bar Not Used to Dancing Around Issues, Dancing Is Now the Issue |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/29/nyregion/for-a-bar-not-used-to-dancing-around-issues-dancing-is-now-the-issue.html |access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907021424/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/29/nyregion/for-a-bar-not-used-to-dancing-around-issues-dancing-is-now-the-issue.html |url-status=live}}</ref> known as the Szechuan Cottage Restaurant.<ref name="Wang 2016 g687" /> Sources disagree on when the changeover occurred. The LPC writes that the Chinese restaurant was in operation by 1982, when the restaurant altered the building without the agency's permission,<ref name="NYCL p. 11" /> but a 1985 description of the site characterizes the bagel shop as still being located within the Stonewall site.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Whitmore |first=George |date=June 11, 1985 |title=A Village Stroll: Gay Lib Landmarks |magazine=The Advocate |pages=53–55 |issue=422 |id={{ProQuest|2465387519}}}}</ref> A bar named Stonewall opened in 51 Christopher Street in 1987.<ref name="Stonewall50 p. 4">{{harvnb|Stonewall 50 Consortium|2019|ps=.|p=4}}</ref><ref name="Cooper 2019 e358">{{cite web |last=Cooper |first=Mariah |date=June 27, 2019 |title=Stonewall Inn's Owners Look Back While Moving Forward |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/06/27/stonewall-inns-owners-look-back-while-moving-forward/ |access-date=March 14, 2024 |website=Washington Blade |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201756/https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/06/27/stonewall-inns-owners-look-back-while-moving-forward/ |url-status=live}}</ref> New York City mayor [[Ed Koch]] proposed co-naming the stretch of Christopher Street outside Stonewall Inn as Stonewall Place in early 1989, and the [[New York City Council]] overwhelmingly approved the plan that April.<ref name="Murphy 1989" /> The new street signs were installed at the beginning of that June.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 2, 1989 |title=Koch Heckled at Event for Gay Pride Month |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/02/nyregion/koch-heckled-at-event-for-gay-pride-month.html |access-date=March 12, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |postscript=none |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312005732/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/02/nyregion/koch-heckled-at-event-for-gay-pride-month.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Kramer |first=Marcia |date=June 2, 1989 |title=Gay protesters rout Ed in Village |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-gay-protesters-rout-ed-in-vil/143188393/ |access-date=March 12, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=320 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312005732/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-gay-protesters-rout-ed-in-vil/143188393/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite web |last=Dorris |first=Jesse |date=June 28, 2022 |title=Queer Landmarks Are Everywhere—and This Group Is Working to Keep Them In Plain Sight |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/queer-landmarks-are-everywhere-nyc-lgbt-historic-sites |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310022623/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/queer-landmarks-are-everywhere-nyc-lgbt-historic-sites |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=Architectural Digest}}</ref><ref name="Mandell 1989">{{cite news |last=Mandell |first=Jonathan |date=June 8, 1989 |title=The Stonewall Legacy Series: This Is the First in an Occasional Series on Gay New Yorkers Whose Lives Reflect the Changes 20 Years After the Stonewall Rebellion. |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |page=4 |id={{ProQuest|278117643}}}}</ref> The bar at number 51 closed in 1989, upon which the sign on the building's facade was disassembled.<ref name="NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project" /><ref>{{harvnb|McDarrah|1994|ps=.|p=7}}</ref> By the early 1990s, the building at 51 Christopher Street had become a men's clothing store.<ref name="Span1994" />

=== Revival at 53 Christopher Street ===

==== Reopening ====
A gay bar named New Jimmy's opened at the Stonewall site in May 1990, serving the city's growing [[Coming out|outwardly LGBTQ]] community.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kirtzman |first=Andrew |date=June 24, 1990 |title=New Pride Among New York Gays |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-new-pride-among-new-york-gays/143360144/ |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=30 |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201756/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-new-pride-among-new-york-gays/143360144/ |url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|''[[AM New York Metro]]'' cites a conflicting reopening date of 1993.<ref name="Rajamani 2019 p318" />}} The space was operated by Jimmy Pisano, a first-time bar owner who, according to his boyfriend Thomas Garguilo, was initially loath to name the bar "Stonewall" because of the sudden closure of the similarly named bar next door. Rather, Pisano initially named the bar after Jimmy Merry, who had taught him how to operate a bar.<ref name="Times 2018 r860">{{cite web |last=Maxwell |first=Carrie |date=July 3, 2018 |title=Thomas Garguilo Talks 'Stonewall Revival,' Partner |url=https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/BOOKS-Thomas-Garguilo-talks-Stonewall-Revival-partner/63398.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |website=Windy City Times |archive-date=March 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324124847/https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/BOOKS-Thomas-Garguilo-talks-Stonewall-Revival-partner/63398.html |url-status=live}}</ref> New Jimmy's occupied only the space at 53 Christopher Street<ref name="Stonewall50 p. 4" /><ref name="Times 2018 r860" /> and was unrelated to the original bar.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chan |first=Sewell |date=September 11, 2017 |title=Police Records Document Start of Stonewall Uprising |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/police-records-document-the-stonewall-uprising/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=City Room |archive-date=January 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129081723/https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/police-records-document-the-stonewall-uprising/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Dominic DeSimone was hired to renovate the space;<ref name="CBS News 2019 e171" /><ref name="Press 2019 f373" /> he wanted to restore the bar to its 1960s-era condition, but critics such as David Carter expressed concerns that the new operators wanted to exploit the bar's name for commercial purposes.<ref name="Koblin 2006 o211">{{cite web |last=Koblin |first=John |date=August 28, 2006 |title=Stonewall to Shutter? Queen Bees Stinging Glad! |url=https://observer.com/2006/08/stonewall-to-shutter-queen-bees-stinging-glad/ |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=Observer |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310022623/https://observer.com/2006/08/stonewall-to-shutter-queen-bees-stinging-glad/ |url-status=live}}</ref> A commemorative plaque was also installed outside the bar's entrance.<ref name="nyt-1994-03-27">{{Cite news |last=Lambert |first=Bruce |date=March 27, 1994 |title=Neighborhood Report: Greenwich Village a History; The Raid Heard Around the World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/27/nyregion/neighborhood-report-greenwich-village-a-history-the-raid-heard-around-the-world.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314212957/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/27/nyregion/neighborhood-report-greenwich-village-a-history-the-raid-heard-around-the-world.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In a contrast to the first iteration of the gay bar, the NYPD did not raid the revived Stonewall Inn, and gay officers sometimes even ordered drinks from the bar.<ref name="The Gazette 1994" /><ref name="CBS News 2019 e171" />

New Jimmy's was renamed Stonewall in 1991.<ref name="Stonewall50 p. 4" /><ref name="Cooper 2019 e358" /> During the early 1990s, Stonewall gained a poor reputation among neighborhood residents after several incidents in which the police were called to remove drug dealers there.<ref name="Author 2006 x245">{{cite web |date=June 27, 2006 |title=Stonewall Inn, Gay Icon, Is Running Low on Pride |url=https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-inn-gay-icon-is-running-low-on-pride/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=amNewYork |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315225811/https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-inn-gay-icon-is-running-low-on-pride/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Stonewall also suffered from low patronage due to competition from other taverns; according to DeSimone, Stonewall frequently did not see more than 50 or 60 patrons even on its busiest nights.<ref name="nyt-1997-07-29" /> Garguilo similarly said that the bar was often empty in the three years after it reopened.<ref name="The Gazette 1994" /> Pisano died of AIDS-related complications in early 1994, and Garguilo took over operation, as he wanted the bar to be open for the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.<ref name="Times 2018 r860" /><ref name="Peltz 2019 f368">{{cite web |last=Peltz |first=Jennifer |date=June 27, 2019 |title=The Stonewall's Path from Illicit Dive to National Monument |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/stonewall-a-bars-path-from-illicit-dive-to-lgbtq-landmark/ |access-date=March 14, 2024 |website=The Seattle Times |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201756/https://www.seattletimes.com/business/stonewall-a-bars-path-from-illicit-dive-to-lgbtq-landmark/ |url-status=live}}</ref> According to Garguilo, so many people came to commemorate the riots' 25th anniversary that there was a line to take pictures of the bar. DeSimone and Pisano's business partner Bob Gurecki took over Stonewall in the mid-1990s.<ref name="CBS News 2019 e171" /><ref name="Press 2019 f373" />

==== DeSimone takeover ====
[[File:Stonewall Inn, NYC (May 2014) - 2.JPG|alt=The Stonewall Inn's storefront window, which contains various posters and a sign with the bar's name|thumb|Storefront window in 2014]]
At the end of 1996, Ben Duell, who owned the building, refused to renew DeSimone's lease unless the latter agreed to expand the bar into the vacant second story.<ref name="nyt-1997-07-29" /> The space at 53 Christopher Street was renovated into a multi-floor nightclub at a cost of $200,000. it included a 95-seat bar room on the second floor. DeSimone needed a permit to operate a dance club within the bar, as it was less than 100 feet from a residential building, but the local [[Manhattan Community Board 2]] unanimously voted against giving him a dance-club permit in early 1997. Despite not having a dance permit, DeSimone decided to open a dance floor on the second story in June 1997, prompting complaints from residents of the nearby [[condominium]] building at [[45 Christopher Street]].<ref name="nyt-1997-07-29" /> By 1999, number 51 was still a clothing store.<ref name="nyt-1999-06-26" /> The bar at number 53 sold souvenirs<ref name="nyt-1999-06-26">{{Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=June 26, 1999 |title=Stonewall, Gay Bar That Made History, Is Made a Landmark |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/26/nyregion/stonewall-gay-bar-that-made-history-is-made-a-landmark.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160711134351/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/26/nyregion/stonewall-gay-bar-that-made-history-is-made-a-landmark.html |archive-date=July 11, 2016 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US}}</ref> and was one of several remaining gay bars on the street.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=Denny |date=March 31, 2002 |title=Street Fight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/nyregion/street-fight.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315200337/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/nyregion/street-fight.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

The bar buildings were added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP) in 1999<ref name="nyt-1999-06-26" /><ref name="Freedman 1999 j277" /> and further designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 2000.<ref name="nyt-2000-04-02" /> Due to repeated noise complaints, by the 2000s, patrons were required to enter through an adjacent building on Seventh Avenue South, rather than the main Christopher Street entrance.<ref name="Koblin 2006 o211" /><ref name="Author 2006 x245" /> The city government charged the club's owners with several safety violations during this decade. According to one member of Manhattan Community Board 2, the owners were reportedly closing curtains (which was disallowed because the club held a New York state liquor license) and allowing sexually explicit shows inside.<ref name="Author 2007 v895">{{cite web |last=Edwards |first=Brooke |date=February 13, 2007 |title=Stonewall, Once Dingy Gay Icon, To Be 'Nicer' |url=https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-once-dingy-gay-icon-to-be-nicer/ |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=amNewYork |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309172834/https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-once-dingy-gay-icon-to-be-nicer/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

By early 2006, Stonewall's beverage suppliers were suing its operators.<ref name="Koblin 2006 o211" />  The LGBTQ community generally either did not know the bar was open or were not interested in the events hosted there. In the bar itself, there were no indications of the riots that had taken place there, except for framed newspaper articles on the walls.<ref name="Author 2006 x245" /> ''The Pink News'' attributed the bar's decline to long-running resentment between different groups of patrons,<ref name="Grew 2006 h112">{{cite web |last=Grew |first=Tony |date=August 24, 2006 |title=Original Stonewall Inn to Close |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2006/08/24/original-stonewall-inn-to-close/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=PinkNews |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315014459/https://www.thepinknews.com/2006/08/24/original-stonewall-inn-to-close/ |url-status=live}}</ref> but neglect, gross mismanagement, and noise complaints from neighbors were also cited as reasons for its downfall.<ref name="Author 2006 x245" /><ref name="Grew 2007 k067">{{cite web |last=Grew |first=Tony |date=January 12, 2007 |title=Original Stonewall Inn Saved by Gay Developers |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2007/01/12/original-stonewall-inn-saved-by-gay-developers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309172834/https://www.thepinknews.com/2007/01/12/original-stonewall-inn-saved-by-gay-developers/ |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=PinkNews}}</ref> The bar was forced to close again later in 2006 after losing its liquor license,<ref name="Author 2007 v895" /><ref name="Grew 2007 k067" /> and the storefront at number 53 was available for rent by that August.<ref name="Koblin 2006 o211" /> Stonewall's furnishings, such as bar stools, were placed on sale.<ref name="Koblin 2006 o211" /> At that point, Stonewall's monthly rent was $20,000, making it unlikely that it would reopen as a bar.<ref name="Grew 2006 h112" /> Kurt Kelly, a local businessman who later helped take over the bar, said: "This is gay history. It's like abusing the [[Liberty Bell]]."<ref name="Kemp 2019">{{cite web |last=Kemp |first=Sophie |date=May 4, 2019 |title=Stonewall at 50: How the Iconic LGBTQ Institution Keeps the Spirit of '69 Alive Today |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/stonewall-inn-50th-anniversary-interview |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=Vogue}}</ref>

==== New management and visitor center ====
Around 2007, the bar was taken over by the businessmen Bill Morgan, Tony DeCicco, and Kurt Kelly,<ref name="Author 2007 v895" /><ref name="Grew 2007 k067" /> along with the bar's first lesbian investor, [[Stacy Lentz]].<ref name="Waddoups 2020 m201">{{cite web |last=Waddoups |first=Ryan |date=July 24, 2020 |title=Inclusivity, Strength, And Resilience: How the Stonewall Inn Endured an Unconventional Pride Month – SURFACE |url=https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/stonewall-inn-stacy-lentz-interview/ |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=SURFACE |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309172835/https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/stonewall-inn-stacy-lentz-interview/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Long |first1=Kat |last2=Frances |first2=Jacqueline |last3=Collins |first3=Andrew |title=100 Women We Love: Stacy Lentz |url=http://www.gomag.com/article/100_women_we_love_stacy_l/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220234609/http://www.gomag.com/article/100_women_we_love_stacy_l/ |archive-date=February 20, 2015 |access-date=April 1, 2015 |website=GO Magazine}}</ref> Morgan told the LGBTQ newspaper ''[[PinkNews]]'' that "When we went looking for investors to save the Stonewall people came out of the woodwork. Gay and straight."<ref name="Grew 2007 k067" /> An [[NPR]] reporter stated that the co-owners sought to renovate the bar to approximate its 1969 appearance, although they did not necessarily wish to operate the bar as a museum.<ref>{{cite web |last=Benk |first=Ryan |date=June 28, 2021 |title=Stonewall Survives The Pandemic And Celebrates Another Pride Month |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010832568/stonewall-survives-the-pandemic-celebrates-another-pride-month |access-date=March 15, 2024 |publisher=NPR |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315211135/https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010832568/stonewall-survives-the-pandemic-celebrates-another-pride-month |url-status=live}}</ref> The Stonewall Inn reopened in March 2007.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 7, 2007 |title=Stonewall Inn Reopens March 12, Three O'Clock Sharp! |url=https://observer.com/2007/03/stonewall-inn-reopens-march-12-three-oclock-sharp/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Observer |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315185921/https://observer.com/2007/03/stonewall-inn-reopens-march-12-three-oclock-sharp/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Lentz hung a costume in the window to honor the actress [[Judy Garland]], a [[Judy Garland as a gay icon|gay icon]] who had died a few days before the riots; the costume resembled [[Gingham dress of Judy Garland|the dress]] worn by Garland's character [[Dorothy Gale|Dorothy]] in the 1939 film ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''.<ref name="Giannotta 2019 i277" /> Kelly said that, after the bar reopened, other bars nearby saw increased business.<ref name="Kemp 2019" /> The bar recorded few issues, other than sporadic violent incidents.<ref name="CBS News 2019 e171" /> One commentator for the ''[[The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide|Gay and Lesbian Review]]'', said in 2009 that the modern bar's "crowd veers toward a random mix of tourists, city kids, and bridge-and-tunnel gays" but that its symbolism was still important.<ref>{{cite web |last=Polly |first=John |date=July 1, 2009 |title=Top 10 Historic Gay Places in the U.S. |url=https://glreview.org/article/article-510/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=The Gay & Lesbian Review |archive-date=September 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930025042/https://glreview.org/article/article-510/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the 2010s, the Stonewall Inn continued to attract regular customers, although a bartender described tourists as comprising most of the visitors.<ref name="Chaban20152">{{Cite news |last=Chaban |first=Matt A. V. |date=May 30, 2015 |title=City Panel Moves to Designate Stonewall Inn as a Landmark |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/nyregion/city-panel-moves-to-designate-stonewall-inn-as-a-landmark.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616141301/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/nyregion/city-panel-moves-to-designate-stonewall-inn-as-a-landmark.html |archive-date=June 16, 2022 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US}}</ref> There was a gift shop behind the bar room.<ref name="nyt-2015-07-13" /> The neighboring structure, at 51 Christopher Street, was operating as a nail salon.<ref name="nyt-2015-07-13">{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=Elizabeth A. |date=July 13, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn May Be Historic, But to Regulars, It's Just a Bar |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/nyregion/stonewall-inn-may-be-historic-but-to-regulars-its-just-a-bar.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415044700/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/nyregion/stonewall-inn-may-be-historic-but-to-regulars-its-just-a-bar.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Hughes 2022 j112">{{cite web |last=Hughes |first=C. J. |date=October 5, 2022 |title=A Lower Manhattan Landlord Emerges to Dust the Cobwebs off Long-Vacant Buildings |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/who-owns-block/lower-manhattan-landlord-emerges-dust-cobwebs-long-vacant-buildings |access-date=March 19, 2024 |website=Crain's New York Business |id={{ProQuest|2724320039}} |archive-date=March 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319002414/https://www.crainsnewyork.com/who-owns-block/lower-manhattan-landlord-emerges-dust-cobwebs-long-vacant-buildings |url-status=live }}</ref> The Duell family sold 51–53 Christopher Street and five other buildings in 2015 to a holding company associated with Alan Wasserman, which paid $57 million.<ref name="Hughes 2022 j112" /> After the [[Stonewall National Monument]] was established around the bar in 2016,<ref name="wp-2023-04-11">{{Cite news |last=Eilperin |first=Juliet |date=June 24, 2016 |title=With National Monument, History Is Made Where Gay Rights History Began |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-national-monument-history-is-made-where-gay-rights-history-began/2016/06/24/4b0046de-3a31-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=July 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713010643/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-national-monument-history-is-made-where-gay-rights-history-began/2016/06/24/4b0046de-3a31-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the LGBTQ–rights organization [[Pride Live]] tried to develop a visitor center for the monument.<ref name="Hickman 2022 c481">{{cite web |last=Hickman |first=Matt |date=June 22, 2022 |title=New Visitor Center at Stonewall National Monument to Kick off NYC Pride |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2022/06/new-visitor-center-stonewall-national-monument-kick-off-nyc-pride/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224032409/https://www.archpaper.com/2022/06/new-visitor-center-stonewall-national-monument-kick-off-nyc-pride/ |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |access-date=February 24, 2024 |website=The Architect's Newspaper}}</ref><ref name="Bixby 2021 f173">{{cite web |last=Bixby |first=Scott |date=June 9, 2021 |title=Landlords Squeeze Stonewall Just in Time for Pride |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/landlords-squeeze-stonewall-just-in-time-for-pride |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223224224/https://www.thedailybeast.com/landlords-squeeze-stonewall-just-in-time-for-pride |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |access-date=February 24, 2024 |website=The Daily Beast}}</ref> Pride Live began negotiating with the owner of 51 Christopher Street in 2019,<ref name="Hickman 2022 c481" /><ref name="Bixby 2021 f173" /> as the storefront there had been vacated.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Holpuch |first=Amanda |date=June 21, 2022 |title=A Stonewall Visitor Center Will Celebrate L.G.B.T.Q. History |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/nyregion/stonewall-national-monument-visitor-center.html |access-date=February 24, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224013854/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/nyregion/stonewall-national-monument-visitor-center.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Tenbarge 2019">{{Cite news |last=Tenbarge |first=Kat |date=June 28, 2019 |title=Inside Stonewall: What It's like to Visit the LGBTQ Landmark 50 Years After the Uprising That Changed History |work=Insider |id={{ProQuest|2423149254}}}}</ref> One of the bar's longest-tenured staff members at the time—the bartender Tree Sequoia, who had been present during the riots—frequently told stories to visitors and was also Stonewall's international ambassador.<ref>{{cite web |last=DiLella |first=Frank |date=June 24, 2020 |title=Looking Back On Stonewall Inn's Historic 1969 Riots and Its Relevancy Today |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/news/2020/06/24/looking-back-on-stonewall-inn-s-historic-1969-riots-and-its-relevancy-today- |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=Spectrum News NY1 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317003108/https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/news/2020/06/24/looking-back-on-stonewall-inn-s-historic-1969-riots-and-its-relevancy-today- |url-status=live }}; {{cite web |last=Giannotta |first=Meghan |date=June 27, 2019 |title=Stonewall's 'infamous' bartender recalls night of the riots: 'We were having the time of our lives' |url=https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-tree-1-33006294/ |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=amNewYork |archive-date=March 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317003107/https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-tree-1-33006294/ |url-status=live }}</ref> One commentator described the bar in 2019 as displaying sponsorship banners above the entrance, while the vacant storefront at 53 Christopher Street contained posters decrying [[violence against LGBTQ people]].<ref name="Tenbarge 2019" />

The bar closed temporarily in March 2020 during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]], and Stonewall's owners unsuccessfully applied for a loan.<ref>{{cite web |last=Peltz |first=Jennifer |date=June 2, 2021 |title=The Stonewall Inn: How a 1969 Uprising Made an NYC Bar a Landmark |url=https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/stonewall-inn-nyc-bars-path-from-illicit-dive-to-lgbtq-landmark/2620085/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=NBC 7 San Diego |archive-date=March 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318235011/https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/stonewall-inn-nyc-bars-path-from-illicit-dive-to-lgbtq-landmark/2620085/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Though the bar was allowed to start selling cocktails that June, it was in danger of closing permanently,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stack |first=Liam |date=June 20, 2020 |title=Can Gay Bars, An Anchor of N.Y.C. Nightlife, Survive the Pandemic? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/nyregion/nyc-gay-bars-pride.html |access-date=March 19, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=December 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217051557/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/nyregion/nyc-gay-bars-pride.html |url-status=live }}</ref> so Kelly and Lentz launched two [[crowdfunding]] campaigns on [[GoFundMe]];<ref>{{cite web |last=Fortney |first=Luke |date=June 25, 2020 |title=Historic Stonewall Inn Is at Risk of Closing Due to COVID-19, Owners Say |url=https://ny.eater.com/2020/6/25/21302258/stonewall-inn-could-shutter-coronavirus-gofundme |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Eater NY |postscript=none |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315014459/https://ny.eater.com/2020/6/25/21302258/stonewall-inn-could-shutter-coronavirus-gofundme |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |date=June 24, 2020 |title=New York City's legendary Stonewall Inn in danger of shutting down amid COVID-19 |url=https://abc7ny.com/stonewall-inn-covid-coronavirus-closing/6263232/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=ABC7 New York |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315014459/https://abc7ny.com/stonewall-inn-covid-coronavirus-closing/6263232/ |url-status=live}}</ref> They raised at least $300,000 for the bar in one month,<ref name="Waddoups 2020 m201" /> and the [[Gill Foundation]] provided another $250,000 in matching funds.<ref>{{cite web |last=Beer |first=Isabel Song |date=April 15, 2022 |title=Historic Stonewall Inn Awards Philanthropists Who Saved the Bar During Pandemic |url=https://www.amny.com/news/historic-stonewall-inn-awards-philanthropists-who-saved-the-bar-during-pandemic/ |access-date=March 19, 2024 |website=amNewYork |postscript=none |archive-date=March 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319002414/https://www.amny.com/news/historic-stonewall-inn-awards-philanthropists-who-saved-the-bar-during-pandemic/ |url-status=live }}; {{cite web |last=Johnson |first=Chris |date=June 28, 2020 |title=Gill Foundation pledges up to $250K to protect Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/06/28/gill-foundation-pledges-up-to-250k-to-protect-stonewall-inn/ |access-date=March 19, 2024 |website=Washington Blade |archive-date=March 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319002414/https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/06/28/gill-foundation-pledges-up-to-250k-to-protect-stonewall-inn/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Stonewall reopened in July 2020 with a limited capacity.<ref>{{cite web |last=Christie |first=Darnell |date=June 29, 2020 |title=New York's Stonewall Inn Gets $250,000 Lifeline to Avoid Closure |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN24021X/ |access-date=March 19, 2024 |work=Reuters}}</ref> The building at 51 Christopher Street was placed for sale in June 2021,<ref name="Hickman 2022 c481" /><ref name="Bixby 2021 f173" /> but, after Pride Live and the owner of 51 Christopher Street came to an agreement,<ref name="Hickman 2022 c481" /> work on the visitor center there commenced in June 2022.<ref name="nyt-2022-06-21a">{{Cite news |last=Holpuch |first=Amanda |date=June 21, 2022 |title=A Stonewall Visitor Center Will Celebrate L.G.B.T.Q. History |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/nyregion/stonewall-national-monument-visitor-center.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224013854/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/nyregion/stonewall-national-monument-visitor-center.html |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |access-date=February 24, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Schermele |first=Zachary |date=June 21, 2022 |title=National Park Service to open Stonewall visitor center dedicated to LGBTQ history |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/national-park-service-open-stonewall-visitor-center-dedicated-lgbtq-hi-rcna34608 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |publisher=NBC News |postscript=none |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015120/https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/national-park-service-open-stonewall-visitor-center-dedicated-lgbtq-hi-rcna34608 |url-status=live}}; {{Cite web |last=Rajamani |first=Maya |date=June 22, 2022 |title=Stonewall National Monument visitor center to open in 2024 |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/06/22/stonewall-national-monument-visitor-center |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224013855/https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/06/22/stonewall-national-monument-visitor-center |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |access-date=February 24, 2024 |website=Spectrum News NY1}}</ref><ref name="Rahmanan 2022 k051">{{cite web |last=Rahmanan |first=Anna |date=June 21, 2022 |title=The First National Monument Dedicated to LGBTQ+ Rights Will Open in NYC |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-first-national-monument-dedicated-to-lgbtq-rights-will-open-in-nyc-062122 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=Time Out New York |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Lockwood |first=Lisa |date=June 23, 2022 |title=Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center Breaks Ground Friday in New York |url=https://wwd.com/business-news/human-resources/stonewall-national-monument-new-york-visitor-center-1235226297/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224013908/https://wwd.com/business-news/human-resources/stonewall-national-monument-new-york-visitor-center-1235226297/ |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |access-date=February 24, 2024 |website=Women's Wear Daily}}</ref> [[MBB Architects]] designed the visitor center, and Local Projects was responsible for designing the exhibits.<ref name="Hickman 2022 c481" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Lockwood |first=Lisa |date=June 23, 2022 |title=Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center Breaks Ground Friday in New York |url=https://wwd.com/business-news/human-resources/stonewall-national-monument-new-york-visitor-center-1235226297/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224013908/https://wwd.com/business-news/human-resources/stonewall-national-monument-new-york-visitor-center-1235226297/ |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |access-date=February 24, 2024 |website=Women's Wear Daily}}</ref> The visitor center opened on June 28, 2024,<ref name=nyt-2024-06-28>{{Cite news|last=Bahr|first=Sarah|date=2024-06-28|title=On Pride Weekend, The Stonewall Visitor Center Opens|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/nyregion/stonewall-visitor-center-opens.html|access-date=June 29, 2024|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 28, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240628092114/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/nyregion/stonewall-visitor-center-opens.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Taitt 2024 n125">{{cite web | last=Taitt | first=Phil | title=NYC Pride: President Joe Biden to visit Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in Greenwich Village | website=ABC7 New York | date=June 28, 2024 | url=https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-pride-president-joe-biden-visit-stonewall-national/15007800/ | access-date=June 29, 2024 | postscript=none | archive-date=June 28, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240628092246/https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-pride-president-joe-biden-visit-stonewall-national/15007800/ | url-status=dead }}; {{Cite web | last=Alfonseca | first=Kiara | title=Stonewall Uprising veteran honors protest as historic LGBTQ center opens | website=ABC News | date=June 28, 2024 | url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/stonewall-uprising-veteran-honors-protest-historic-lgbtq-center/story?id=111454893 | access-date=June 29, 2024 | archive-date=June 28, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240628135806/https://abcnews.go.com/US/stonewall-uprising-veteran-honors-protest-historic-lgbtq-center/story?id=111454893 | url-status=live }}</ref> as the United States' first official national visitor center for LGBTQ culture.<ref name="nyt-2024-06-282" /> Numerous politicians and celebrities, including the singer [[Elton John]] and U.S. President [[Joe Biden]], participated in the inauguration ceremonies,<ref>{{cite web | last=England | first=Adam | title=Elton John joins POTUS Joe Biden at opening of Stonewall Monument Center | website=NME | date=June 30, 2024 | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/elton-john-joins-potus-joe-biden-opening-stonewall-monument-center-3770492 | access-date=June 30, 2024 | postscript=none }}; {{Cite web | title=New York City hosts annual Pride march, opens Stonewall visitor center | publisher=Voice of America | date=June 29, 2024 | url=https://www.voanews.com/a/new-york-city-hosts-annual-pride-march-opens-stonewall-visitor-center-/7677805.html | access-date=June 30, 2024 | archive-date=June 30, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240630015011/https://www.voanews.com/a/new-york-city-hosts-annual-pride-march-opens-stonewall-visitor-center-/7677805.html | url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[New York City Subway]]'s Christopher Street–Sheridan Square station was renamed the [[Christopher Street–Stonewall station]] on the same day.<ref name=nyt-2024-06-28 /><ref name="Taitt 2024 n125" />

==Buildings<span class="anchor" id="Architecture"></span>==
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The first Stonewall Inn occupied a pair of repurposed horse stables at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, on the northern side of the street.<ref name="NYCL p. 3">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=3}}</ref> The modern-day bar occupies only the structure at 53 Christopher Street.<ref name="Rahmanan 2022 k051" /><ref>{{cite aia5|pp=175}}</ref> The neighboring building to the east, at 51 Christopher Street, opened in 2024 as the Stonewall National Monument's visitor center.<ref name="Rahmanan 2022 k051" /> Because the structures were developed separately, the roof of number 51 is slightly higher than that of number 53, and there is a [[party wall]] separating both buildings.<ref name="NPS p. 4">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=4}}</ref> The two buildings share a [[land lot]] with five other structures; {{As of|2022|lc=y}}, these seven structures contained numerous storefronts and a combined 23 apartments.<ref name="Hughes 2022 j112" />

Despite the bar's significance to the LGBTQ community, [[David W. Dunlap]] of ''The New York Times'' wrote: "An architectural monument, Stonewall is not".<ref name="nyt-1999-06-26" /> [[Ginia Bellafante]] wrote for the same newspaper in 2015 that the buildings were architecturally undistinguished but received an "A for meaning".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bellafante |first=Ginia |date=June 26, 2015 |title=As a Landmark, Stonewall Gets C– for Looks but A for Meaning |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/nyregion/as-a-landmark-stonewall-gets-c-for-looks-but-a-for-meaning.html |access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=February 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205024145/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/nyregion/as-a-landmark-stonewall-gets-c-for-looks-but-a-for-meaning.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Surroundings<span class="anchor" id="Site"></span> ===
Directly south of the two structures is [[Christopher Park]], a {{convert|0.19|acre|m2 ft2|adj=on}} [[pocket park]] between Christopher, West 4th, and Grove streets.<ref>{{cite web |last=Morowitz |first=Matthew |date=October 20, 2015 |title=Making Christopher Park a National Park |url=http://gvshp.org/blog/2015/10/20/making-christopher-park-a-national-park/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405020220/http://gvshp.org/blog/2015/10/20/making-christopher-park-a-national-park/ |archive-date=April 5, 2016 |access-date=June 27, 2016 |website=[[Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation]]}}</ref><ref name="New York City Department of Parks & Recreation 1969 u782">{{cite web |date=June 27, 1969 |title=Christopher Park Highlights : NYC Parks |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/christopher-park/history |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911003030/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/christopher-park/history |archive-date=September 11, 2016 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation}}</ref> In tribute to the riots, the park has contained the ''[[Gay Liberation Monument|Gay Liberation]]'' statue by [[George Segal (artist)|George Segal]] since 1992.<ref>{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Christopher Park Highlights : NYC Parks |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/christopher-park/history |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911003030/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/christopher-park/history |archive-date=September 11, 2016 |access-date=June 24, 2016 |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |date=May 11, 2015 |title=Christopher Park: Bringing the Community Together |url=http://villagealliance.org/blog/2015/05/11/christopher-park-bringing-community-together/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809085211/http://villagealliance.org/blog/2015/05/11/christopher-park-bringing-community-together/ |archive-date=August 9, 2016 |access-date=June 27, 2016 |website=The Village Alliance}}</ref> It also displayed a sculpture named ''[[A Love Letter to Marsha]]'' (a temporary tribute to the transgender activist [[Marsha P. Johnson]], who was present during the riots) during 2021.<ref>{{cite web |last=Weaver |first=Shaye |date=August 25, 2021 |title=The First Transgender Statue in an NYC Park Has Been Erected |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-first-transgender-statue-in-an-nyc-park-has-been-erected-082521 |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=Time Out New York |postscript=none |archive-date=October 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241013203815/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-first-transgender-statue-in-an-nyc-park-has-been-erected-082521 |url-status=live }}; {{cite web |last=Andrew |first=Scottie |date=August 28, 2021 |title=A bust of Marsha P. Johnson went up near the Stonewall Inn as a tribute to the transgender activist |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/28/us/marsha-p-johnson-bust-new-york-trnd/index.html |access-date=March 18, 2024 |publisher=CNN |archive-date=June 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621163429/https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/28/us/marsha-p-johnson-bust-new-york-trnd/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[New York City Subway]]'s {{stl|NYCS|Christopher Street–Stonewall}} is next to the park.<ref name="New York City Department of Parks & Recreation 1969 u782" /> The station's artwork includes a triptych that depicts the riots,<ref>{{Cite news |last=McKinley |first=Jesse |date=June 18, 1995 |title=F.y.i. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/18/nyregion/fyi-184595.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314220931/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/18/nyregion/fyi-184595.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and the station itself was renamed after Stonewall National Monument in 2024.<ref>{{cite web | last=Ginsburg | first=Aaron | title=Christopher Street subway station to be renamed in honor of Stonewall | website=6sqft | date=June 6, 2024 | url=https://www.6sqft.com/christopher-street-subway-station-renamed-in-honor-of-stonewall/ | access-date=June 8, 2024 | postscript=none | archive-date=June 8, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608123745/https://www.6sqft.com/christopher-street-subway-station-renamed-in-honor-of-stonewall/ | url-status=live }}; {{Cite web | last=Kumamoto | first=Ian | title=The Christopher Street subway station is about to get a new name | website=Time Out New York | date=June 7, 2024 | url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/christopher-street-station-is-about-to-get-a-new-name-060724 | access-date=June 8, 2024 | archive-date=June 8, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608123745/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/christopher-street-station-is-about-to-get-a-new-name-060724 | url-status=live }}</ref>

A [[crosswalk]] at Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue South to the west, the closest intersection to the Stonewall Inn, has been painted in the colors of the [[Rainbow flag (LGBTQ)|LGBTQ rainbow flag]] since 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cook |first=Lauren |date=June 23, 2017 |title=Rainbow Crosswalk for LGBTQ Pride Coming to Stonewall Monument Intersection, Mayor Says |url=https://www.amny.com/news/rainbow-crosswalk-for-lgbtq-pride-coming-to-stonewall-monument-intersection-mayor-says-1-13759290/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=amNewYork |postscript=none |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311171749/https://www.amny.com/news/rainbow-crosswalk-for-lgbtq-pride-coming-to-stonewall-monument-intersection-mayor-says-1-13759290/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite web |last=Boone |first=Ruschell |date=June 22, 2018 |title=Greenwich Village crosswalk painted with pride |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/news/2018/06/22/greenwich-village-crosswalk-painted-with-pride |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=Spectrum News NY1 |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |date=June 23, 2019 |title=NYC Pride: Crews paint rainbow crosswalk outside Stonewall Inn |url=https://abc7ny.com/nyc-pride-gay-march-new-york/5358965/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=ABC7 New York}}</ref> To the east, Christopher Street intersects Grove Street, [[Waverly Place]] (twice),{{Efn|Due to the irregular street grid, Waverly Place splits into two legs just south of Christopher Street. One leg continues northwest to the intersection of Christopher and Grove streets at an acute angle, while another travels north-northwest and intersects Christopher Street at a right angle.<ref name="NPS p. 12" />}} and [[Gay Street (Manhattan)|Gay Street]]. Parts of these roads are protected on the National Register of Historic Places along with the bar itself.<ref name="nyt-2022-11-21" /><ref name="NPS p. 12">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=12}}</ref>

=== Exterior<span class="anchor" id="Facade"></span> ===
On both buildings, the facade of the ground story is mostly made of brick, while the second floor is clad with stucco.<ref name="NPS p. 4" /><ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|pp=3–4}}</ref> The building at 53 Christopher Street is two stories high and divided vertically into three [[Bay (architecture)|bays]].<ref name="NYCL p. 4">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=4}}</ref> At ground level, the center of number 53's facade contains a rectangular, {{convert|4|by|8|ft|adj=on}} storefront window with a brick windowsill, which in turn is flanked by arched entrances. The entrance to the left is a narrow [[semicircular arch]]. The entrance to the right is a [[segmental arch]], with wooden double doors. On the second story, the stucco facade is [[Scoring (industrial process)|scored]] horizontally, and there is a rectangular iron flower-box holder beneath each of the three windows.<ref name="NPS p. 4" /><ref name="NYCL p. 4" /> By the 21st century, a neon sign with the bar's name was ordinarily placed in the window,<ref>{{cite web |date=July 8, 2018 |title=Teen Smashes Window, Neon Sign at Stonewall Inn With Baseball Bat: Police |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/teen-arrested-for-smashing-window-neon-sign-at-stonewall-inn-police/1734372/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=NBC New York |archive-date=March 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318214327/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/teen-arrested-for-smashing-window-neon-sign-at-stonewall-inn-police/1734372/ |url-status=live }}</ref> while [[pride flag]]s were hung on the facade.<ref name="Tenbarge 2019" />

The building at 51 Christopher Street is two stories high (previously three), with a one-story rear annex, and is four bays wide.<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /> At ground level, the left half of number 51's facade contains a rectangular, {{convert|4|by|8|ft|adj=on}} storefront window with a brick windowsill, similar to the window at number 53. Immediately to the right is a segmental arch, with a [[fanlight]] above wooden double doors.<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /> The bay furthest to the right has a stucco facade at ground level, with a rectangular door leading to the second floor. On the second story, the stucco facade is [[Scoring (industrial process)|scored]] horizontally, and there is a curved iron flower-box holder beneath each of the four windows.<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /><ref name="NPS p. 4" /> At the time of the 1969 riots, the second floor of number 51 had a vertical sign, though this has since been removed.<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /> There was also a stoop at 51 Christopher Street's entrance, which was removed when the building became a visitor center.<ref name="Chandonnet 2024 t470">{{cite web |last=Chandonnet |first=Henry |date=June 28, 2024 |title=The Stonewall Inn Monument Gets a Slick New Visitor Center |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91148016/the-stonewall-inn-monument-gets-a-slick-new-visitors-center |access-date=June 28, 2024 |website=Fast Company}}</ref>

=== Interior ===

==== Original gay bar ====
[[File:Layout of the Stonewall Inn 1969-en.svg|alt=An illustration of the layout of the Stonewall Inn in 1969:. The floor layout is rectangular, with the front of the inn along Christopher Street. The entrance opens to a lobby where patrons could go to the larger part of the bar to the right that also featured a larger dance floor. From that room was an entrance to a smaller room with a smaller dance floor and smaller bar. The toilets are located near the rear of the building|thumb|Layout of the Stonewall Inn, 1969<ref name="Carter 2004">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|loc=photo spread, p. 1}}</ref>]]
When the Stonewall Inn was turned into an LGBTQ bar, the bar was split into two primary rooms, one in each building.<ref name="Carter 2004" /> The bar had almost no decoration and scant lighting, and what little decoration did exist was destroyed on the first day of the Stonewall riots. Aside from black paint, the spaces had temporary wooden bars.<ref name="NPS p. 4" /> According to a description of the bar from the 1960s, the decoration was so sparse that it looked "to have only recently been converted from a garage into a cabaret in about eight hours and at a cost of under fifty dollars".<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=67}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=11}}</ref>

Originally, service spaces such as the coat room were placed at the front of the bar,<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=16}}; {{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=70}}</ref> likely to limit outsiders' views of the interior.<ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|p=16}}; {{Harvnb|Lustbader|1993|ps=.|p=61}}</ref> Visitors entered straight into a tiny vestibule. There was an office or coat check to the left of the main entrance, immediately behind the front window of 53 Christopher Street.<ref name="NPS p. 11" /><ref name="Carter p. 70" />{{Efn|{{harvnb|Carter|2004|p=72}}, says that there was a coat check to the left of the vestibule. {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|p=11}}, states that there was an office to the left and a coat check ahead.}} A wishing well was found just inside the doorway.<ref name="Carter p. 73" /> The main bar room was to the right, within 51 Christopher Street, through a doorway and down a single step. The main room had a long bar with narrow stools, and there was a dance floor at the rear.<ref name="Carter p. 70">{{harvnb|Carter|2004|ps=.|p=70}}</ref> Swinging doors led from the main room, up one step, to the back room at 53 Christopher Street.<ref name="Carter p. 72" /> The back room contained a bar at its rear.<ref>{{harvnb|Carter|2004|pp=72–73}}; {{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=11}}</ref> Toward the rear of the bar were the men's and women's restrooms, which had doors from both the main and back rooms.<ref name="Carter pp. 72–73" />

==== Later configuration ====
The interior of the original Stonewall Inn was divided into two spaces and redesigned after the original bar closed.<ref name=":0" /> The bar at 53 Christopher Street, and the visitor center at 51 Christopher Street, function as separate entities.<ref name="Colyar 2024 w331" /><ref name="Chandonnet 2024 t470" />  53 Christopher Street largely retains its original layout, but the finishes have been completely replaced.<ref name=":0">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|pp=4–5}}</ref> The ground floor's interior decorations include a mirror occupying one wall, as well as wood paneling along the other walls.<ref name="New York Magazine 2019 v546" /> A 2009 article on the bar characterized it as a nondescript space with stools and a pool table.<ref name="Gay Times 2009">{{Cite magazine |date=Jul 2009 |title=It Happened One Night |magazine=Gay Times |pages=36–39 |id={{ProQuest|2081972147}}}}</ref> There is also a side room with red lighting.<ref name="New York Magazine 2019 v546">{{cite web |date=February 20, 2019 |title=The Stonewall Inn |url=https://nymag.com/listings/bar/the-stonewall-inn/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=New York |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315190605/https://nymag.com/listings/bar/the-stonewall-inn/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Inside is the [[National LGBTQ Wall of Honor]], which was established in 2019 to honor notable LGBTQ individuals.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lavietes |first=Matthew |title=LGBTQ Heroes Celebrated with Wall of Honor at Stonewall Inn in New York |work=Reuters |date=June 27, 2019 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1TS390/ |access-date=March 14, 2024}}</ref> The modern bar has contained a variety of pride flags;<ref name="Tenbarge 2019" /> [[banknote]]s collected from foreign visitors;<ref name="Giannotta 2019 i277" /> pictures and newspaper clippings about the riots;<ref name="Gay Times 2009" /> and a sign indicating that the bar had been raided.<ref name="Tenbarge 2019" />

The second story of the revived bar includes a room with a capacity of 150 people;<ref name="Johnston 1971">{{cite news |last=Johnston |first=Laurie |date=July 26, 1971 |title=Christopher Street: From Farm to Gay Center |work=The New York Times |page=27 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|119296802}}}}</ref> this dance floor has a stage, a disco ball, seats with [[leopard print]] upholstery, and velour curtains.<ref name="New York Magazine 2019 v546" /> A ''New York'' magazine article described the dance floor as having a "bar mitzvah vibe" because of its decoration.<ref name="New York Magazine 2019 v546" /> According to a 2019 account, there was also a basement performance space.<ref name="Tenbarge 2019" />

51 Christopher Street has been converted into a {{Convert|3,700|ft2|adj=on}} visitor center, containing interactive displays and exhibits about the bar and national monument.<ref name="nyt-2022-06-21a" /><ref name="Rahmanan 2022 k051" /> The visitor center includes a "content story wall" with information about people involved in the riot, a 1960s jukebox similar to the one used in the original bar, and a theater-like space with golden shovels bearing the names of the visitor center's sponsors.<ref name="nyt-2024-06-28" /><ref name="Colyar 2024 w331">{{cite web |last=Colyar |first=Brock |date=June 20, 2024 |title=What Is Stonewall in 2024? |url=https://www.curbed.com/article/stonewall-national-monument-visitor-center-national-parks.html |access-date=June 28, 2024 |website=Curbed}}</ref> There is also artwork, as well as information about the history of the building and the riots.<ref name="nyt-2024-06-282">{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=2024-06-28 |title=Why Can't New York Make a Proper Monument to Gay History? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/arts/design/stonewall-monument-visitor-center.html |access-date=2024-06-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240628145124/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/arts/design/stonewall-monument-visitor-center.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The visitor center also includes restrooms and space for park rangers.<ref name="nyt-2024-06-17">{{Cite news|last=Tiefenthäler|first=Ainara|date=2024-06-17|title=5 Places to Visit for Pride in New York|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/travel/nyc-pride-2024-what-to-do.html|access-date=2024-06-17|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 17, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617204354/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/travel/nyc-pride-2024-what-to-do.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The interior of the visitor center is decorated in white, and the doorway to the existing bar at 53 Christopher Street has been bricked up.<ref name="Chandonnet 2024 t470" /><ref name="Colyar 2024 w331" /> One observer for the magazine ''[[Fast Company]]'' said the visitor center "makes Stonewall a sanitary, consumable story",<ref name="Chandonnet 2024 t470" /> while ''The New York Times'' art critic [[Holland Cotter]] wrote of the visitor center's "informational softness".<ref name="nyt-2024-06-282" />

== Drinks ==
The modern Stonewall Inn serves only drinks and not food.<ref name="Ellwood 2019" /> The drinks that have been served at the bar have included Off the Wall, a pomegranate-and-lime-juice cocktail.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rense |first=Sarah |date=June 22, 2018 |title=How to Make a Pride Cocktail for Pride Month |url=https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/drinks/a21753754/lgbtq-pride-cocktail-recipe/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Esquire |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315200320/https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/drinks/a21753754/lgbtq-pride-cocktail-recipe/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The bar's official beer is [[Brooklyn Brewery]]'s Stonewall Inn IPA, a lemon and grapefruit [[India pale ale|IPA]] that is 4.5% [[alcohol by volume]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Lloyd |first=Gary |date=November 26, 2021 |title=Brooklyn Brewery's Stonewall Inn IPA Launches in UK, Black Sheep Brewery Re-Releases Festive Favourites |url=https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2021/11/26/Are-there-any-Christmas-beers-out-yet |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Morning Adviser |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707083109/https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2021/11/26/Are-there-any-Christmas-beers-out-yet |url-status=live}}</ref> Co-owner Stacy Lentz said in 2021 that she mainly wanted to sell beer brands made by LGBTQ–friendly companies, including Brooklyn Brewery, Gay Beer, and Dyke Beer.<ref name="Hoeffner 2021 u236">{{cite web |last=Hoeffner |first=Melissa Kravitz |date=June 25, 2021 |title=Historic Stonewall Inn Leads Anheuser-Busch Boycott During Pride Month |url=https://ny.eater.com/2021/6/25/22550618/stonewall-inn-leads-anheuser-busch-beer-boycott-pride |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Eater NY |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315212103/https://ny.eater.com/2021/6/25/22550618/stonewall-inn-leads-anheuser-busch-beer-boycott-pride |url-status=live}}</ref> The bar stopped selling [[Anheuser-Busch brands]] such as Bud Light in 2021 because of [[Anheuser-Busch]]'s donations to numerous politicians who had introduced anti-LGBTQ legislation.<ref name="Hoeffner 2021 u236" /><ref>{{cite web |date=June 21, 2021 |title=Stonewall Inn to Pour Bud Light Down the Drain in Anheuser-Busch Protest |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/21/stonewall-inn-anheuser-busch-beer-boycott-lgbtq |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=The Guardian |postscript=none |agency=Associated Press |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202084701/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/21/stonewall-inn-anheuser-busch-beer-boycott-lgbtq |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Lavietes |first=Matthew |date=June 21, 2021 |title=New York's Stonewall Inn bans Bud Light for LGBT+ Pride weekend |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN2DX1ZA/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=Reuters}}</ref> Bud Light had been among the most popular beer brands sold at the bar when Stonewall stopped selling it.<ref name="Hoeffner 2021 u236" />

A ''[[Condé Nast Traveler]]'' review from 2009 described the beverages as "unfussy and mainstream".<ref name="Ellwood 2019">{{cite web |last=Ellwood |first=Mark |date=June 3, 2019 |title=Stonewall Inn, West Village, New York, New York, United States |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/bars/stonewall-inn |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Condé Nast Traveler |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315185926/https://www.cntraveler.com/bars/stonewall-inn |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Time Out'' and ''New York'' rank the bar's drinks as being moderately priced.<ref name="Time Out New York 2021 s482">{{cite web |date=June 8, 2021 |title=Bars in West Village, New York |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/bars/the-stonewall-inn |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315185921/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/bars/the-stonewall-inn |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Time Out New York}}</ref><ref name="New York Magazine 2019 v546" />  ''The Telegraph'' wrote in 2018: "All that said, Stonewall is a fine place to sip a vodka soda and meet new friends."<ref>{{cite web |date=March 7, 2024 |title=The 24 Best Bars in New York |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/new-york/articles/best-bars-in-new-york/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref>

== Events ==
The modern Stonewall Inn has hosted a variety of local music artists, drag shows, trivia nights, cabaret, karaoke, private parties, and same-sex wedding receptions.<ref name="Lakey 2019" /> The bar hosts regular events such as karaoke and drag bingo to attract regular customers.<ref name="nyt-2015-07-13" /> Stonewall also hosted "big gay happy hours"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fraser |first=Lisa |date=January 8, 2015 |title=Greenwich Village: Culture Thrives on These Winding Streets |work=Am New York |pages=14–15 |id={{ProQuest|1646545089}}}}</ref> and screened black-and-white films near the main bar room.<ref name="Tenbarge 2019" /> ''[[Time Out New York]]'' described the bar in 2021 as being frequented by tourists during the day, while hosting dance parties at night.<ref name="Time Out New York 2021 s482" />  Kelly, Morgan, and Lentz have also presented fundraising events for LGBTQ nonprofit organizations.<ref name="Lakey 2019">{{Cite web |last=Lakey |first=George |date=June 26, 2019 |title=What We Can Learn from the LGBTQ Movement's 50 Years of Achievement |url=https://commonslibrary.org/what-we-can-learn-from-the-lgbtq-movements-50-years-of-achievement/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005121405/https://commonslibrary.org/what-we-can-learn-from-the-lgbtq-movements-50-years-of-achievement/ |archive-date=October 5, 2022 |access-date=October 5, 2022 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> The bar has hosted celebrity performances such as those by [[Madonna]] in 2018<ref>{{cite web |last=Aswad |first=Jem |date=December 31, 2018 |title=Madonna Gives Surprise New Year's Eve Performance at Stonewall Inn |url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/madonna-surprise-new-years-eve-performance-stonewall-inn-watch-1203097344/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031035917/https://variety.com/2018/music/news/madonna-surprise-new-years-eve-performance-stonewall-inn-watch-1203097344/ |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |access-date=October 30, 2022 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> and [[Taylor Swift]] in 2019,<ref>{{cite web |last=Aswad |first=Jem |date=June 15, 2019 |title=Watch Taylor Swift Give Surprise Performance at LGBT Landmark Stonewall Inn |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/taylor-swift-stonewall-surprise-performance-watch-video-1203244161/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Variety |postscript=none |archive-date=March 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329215045/https://variety.com/2019/music/news/taylor-swift-stonewall-surprise-performance-watch-video-1203244161/ |url-status=live}}; {{cite magazine |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Kevin |date=June 15, 2019 |title=Taylor Swift Dropped By Stonewall for a Surprise Pride Performance |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/06/taylor-swift-stonewall-pride-surprise-performance |access-date=March 15, 2024 |magazine=Vanity Fair |archive-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715161040/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/06/taylor-swift-stonewall-pride-surprise-performance |url-status=live}}</ref> as well as visits from other figures such as U.S. Vice President [[Kamala Harris]] in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lavietes |first=Matt |date=June 26, 2023 |title=Vice President Kamala Harris Makes a Surprise Visit to NYC's Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/president-kamala-harris-makes-surprise-visit-nycs-stonewall-inn-rcna91203 |access-date=March 15, 2024 |publisher=NBC News |postscript=none |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315211135/https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/president-kamala-harris-makes-surprise-visit-nycs-stonewall-inn-rcna91203 |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Stack |first=Liam |date=June 26, 2023 |title=Kamala Harris Visits Stonewall Inn to Express Support for LGBTQ Rights |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/nyregion/kamala-harris-stonewall-inn-lgbtq-rights.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315211135/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/nyregion/kamala-harris-stonewall-inn-lgbtq-rights.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[File:NYers celebrate historic vote for gay marriage.webm|thumb|A public rally in front of the Stonewall Inn celebrating the passage of the [[Marriage Equality Act (New York)|Marriage Equality Act]] in 2011]]By the 21st century, the Stonewall Inn frequently served as a gathering place for the LGBTQ community, especially after major events that affected LGBTQ people.<ref name="wp-2023-04-11" /><ref name="Rajamani 2019 p318">{{cite web |last=Rajamani |first=Maya |date=June 24, 2019 |title=Stonewall's Impact, 50 Years After the Riots: 'It's Much More Than a Bar' |url=https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-riots-1-32824260/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=amNewYork}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Aviles |first=Gwen |date=June 28, 2019 |title=The Legacy of Stonewall: 'Where Pride Began' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/legacy-stonewall-where-pride-began-n1024581 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309172835/https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/legacy-stonewall-where-pride-began-n1024581 |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |publisher=NBC News}}</ref> These included celebrations in 2011, after the [[Marriage Equality Act (New York)|Marriage Equality Act]] legalized same-sex marriage in New York state;<ref>{{cite web |last=Avery |first=Dan |date=June 24, 2021 |title=They Fought for Gay Marriage. A Decade Later, Advocates Reflect on the 'Herculean Feat.' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/fought-gay-marriage-decade-later-advocates-reflect-herculean-feat-rcna1259 |access-date=March 14, 2024 |publisher=NBC News |postscript=none |archive-date=January 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105155856/https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/fought-gay-marriage-decade-later-advocates-reflect-herculean-feat-rcna1259 |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Elizabeth A. |last2=Quinlan |first2=Adriane |date=June 25, 2011 |title=A Sense of Euphoria Settles on the West Village |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/nyregion/a-sense-of-euphoria-settles-on-the-west-village.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201756/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/nyregion/a-sense-of-euphoria-settles-on-the-west-village.html |url-status=live}}</ref> in 2013, after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in ''[[United States v. Windsor]]'' to recognize same-sex marriage on the federal level;<ref>{{cite web |date=June 26, 2013 |title=At Stonewall, Rulings on Gay Marriage Draws Tears And Cheers |url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/303406-scotus_reax/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |publisher=WNYC |postscript=none |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316012514/https://www.wnyc.org/story/303406-scotus_reax/ |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |date=June 26, 2013 |title=Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/news/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-same-sex-marriage-52318017 |access-date=March 15, 2024 |publisher=NBC News |postscript=none |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316011155/https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/news/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-same-sex-marriage-52318017 |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Sale |first=Anna |date=June 26, 2013 |title=Same-Sex Marriage Supporters Celebrate At Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/06/26/195956202/sane-sex-marriage-supporters-celebrate-at-stonewall-inn |access-date=March 15, 2024 |publisher=NPR |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316011156/https://www.npr.org/2013/06/26/195956202/sane-sex-marriage-supporters-celebrate-at-stonewall-inn |url-status=live}}</ref> and in 2015, after the Supreme Court decided in ''[[Obergefell v. Hodges]]'' to repeal all state bans on same-sex marriage.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Koffler |first=Jacob |date=June 26, 2015 |title=Crowds at Stonewall Inn Celebrate Gay Rights Victory Decades in the Making |url=https://time.com/3937889/stonewall-gay-marriage-celebration/ |access-date=March 14, 2024 |magazine=Time |postscript=none |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201756/https://time.com/3937889/stonewall-gay-marriage-celebration/ |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Woolf |first=Nicky |date=June 26, 2015 |title='It was all worth fighting for': Stonewall revels in US gay marriage victory |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/26/stonewall-riots-gay-marriage-ruling |access-date=March 14, 2024 |website=The Guardian |postscript=none |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201757/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/26/stonewall-riots-gay-marriage-ruling |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |date=June 26, 2015 |title=Crowds Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage Ruling At Historic Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/ |access-date=March 14, 2024 |website=CBS New York |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201757/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/ |url-status=live}}</ref> People have also convened at the bar following negative events.<ref name="Cooper 2019 e358" /> For example, it served as a memorial after dozens of gay men were killed in the [[2016 Pulse nightclub shooting]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Ismail |first=Aymann |date=June 14, 2016 |title=Grief and Protest Mingle at the Stonewall Vigil for the Pulse Nightclub Massacre |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/06/mourning-protest-mingle-for-orlando-pulse-victims-at-stonewall-vigil.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Slate |postscript=none |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428082101/https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/06/mourning-protest-mingle-for-orlando-pulse-victims-at-stonewall-vigil.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Remnick |first=Noah |date=June 14, 2016 |title=A Moment of Solidarity at the Stonewall Inn, a Gay Rights Landmark |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/nyregion/a-moment-of-solidarity-at-the-stonewall-inn-a-gay-rights-landmark.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609202101/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/nyregion/a-moment-of-solidarity-at-the-stonewall-inn-a-gay-rights-landmark.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and people protested at the bar in response to anti-LGBTQ actions taken by the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|first]]<ref name="CBS News 2019 e171" /><ref name="Cooper 2019 e358" /> and [[Second presidency of Donald Trump|second]] administrations of U.S. President [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Haigh |first1=Susan |title=US Park Service erases the word 'transgender' from website commemorating Stonewall riot |url=https://apnews.com/article/stonewall-transgender-trump-3add180f5cfcde156f8d809d24e830a6 |access-date=16 February 2025 |work=Associated Press News |date=13 February 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250214031935/https://apnews.com/article/stonewall-transgender-trump-3add180f5cfcde156f8d809d24e830a6 |archive-date=14 February 2025 |postscript=none }}; {{cite web | title=Stonewall Inn: Protesters respond to removal of the word 'Transgender' | website=USA Today | date=February 14, 2025 | url=https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2025/02/14/stonewall-inn-protest-transgender-national-parks-services-webpage/78648215007/ | access-date=February 15, 2025 | archive-date=February 15, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250215015212/https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2025/02/14/stonewall-inn-protest-transgender-national-parks-services-webpage/78648215007/ | url-status=live }}</ref> The bar has been the site of other LGBT–related events, such as a 2014 announcement by U.S. interior secretary [[Sally Jewell]] on LGBTQ historic sites<ref>{{cite web |date=May 30, 2014 |title=Interior Secretary Sally Jewell Announces Effort To Mark LGBT Historical Sites |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/interior-secretary-sally-jewell-announces-effort-to-mark-lgbt-historical-sites/ |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=CBS New York |postscript=none |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316011156/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/interior-secretary-sally-jewell-announces-effort-to-mark-lgbt-historical-sites/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |title=Jewell announces search for LGBT landmarks at the Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/jewell-announces-search-for-lgbt-landmarks-at-the-stonewall-inn/2016/05/03/9eef5538-117c-11e6-a9b5-bf703a5a7191_video.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129163856/https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/jewell-announces-search-for-lgbt-landmarks-at-the-stonewall-inn/2016/05/03/9eef5538-117c-11e6-a9b5-bf703a5a7191_video.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and a 2015 gay marriage ceremony.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pereira |first1=Ivan |last2=Bauman |first2=Valerie |date=June 29, 2015 |title=1st Marriage for Couple, Cuomo |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |page=A7 |id={{ProQuest|1691541078}}}}</ref> Politicians have used the bar for campaign events,<ref name="CBS News 2019 e171" /> such as when New York City Councilwoman [[Christine Quinn]] ran in the [[2013 New York City mayoral election]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Chibbaro |first=Lou Jr. |date=September 9, 2013 |title=Quinn Rallies at Stonewall Inn in Final Push for Mayor |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/09/09/quinn-rallies-stonewall-inn-final-push-mayor/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316011157/https://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/09/09/quinn-rallies-stonewall-inn-final-push-mayor/ |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=Washington Blade |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Nir |first=Sarah Maslin |date=September 7, 2013 |title=Gay Supporters Cheer On Quinn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/nyregion/gay-supporters-cheer-on-quinn.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316011922/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/nyregion/gay-supporters-cheer-on-quinn.html |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

== Advocacy ==
After Lentz took over the bar, she organized several events in support of LGBTQ rights, such as a 2013 rally for the [[legalization of same-sex marriage]] outside the bar.<ref name="Cooper 2019 e358" /> In 2017, Stonewall co-owners Bill Morgan, Stacy Lentz, and Kurt Kelly established the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, a nonprofit LGBTQ–rights advocacy organization.<ref name="Holtermann 2023 y056">{{cite web |last=Holtermann |first=Gabriele |date=October 24, 2023 |title=Stonewall Inn Gives Back to LGBTQ+ Community |url=https://www.amny.com/business/stonewall-inn-gives-back-lgbtq-community/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309172834/https://www.amny.com/business/stonewall-inn-gives-back-lgbtq-community/ |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=amNewYork}}</ref> The organization has received proceeds from the sale of the Stonewall Inn IPA<ref name="Ellwood 2019" /> and the sale of objects commemorating the Stonewall riots' 50th anniversary.<ref>{{cite web |last=Moin |first=David |date=April 4, 2019 |title=Saks to Honor 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Inn Uprising |url=https://wwd.com/business-news/retail/saks-to-honor-50th-anniversary-of-stonewall-inn-uprising-1203096375/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=Women's Wear Daily |archive-date=March 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318235011/https://wwd.com/business-news/retail/saks-to-honor-50th-anniversary-of-stonewall-inn-uprising-1203096375/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative has hosted events such as a 2020 concert co-hosted by German alcohol brand [[Jägermeister]] to raise money for nightlife workers.<ref name="Waddoups 2020 m201" /> Since 2023, the organization has presented the Stonewall Inn Brick Awards Gala, an event honoring LGBTQ community leaders.<ref name="Holtermann 2023 y056" />

Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative also operates a program through which LGBTQ-friendly events could be designated as "safe spaces".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rhim |first=Kris |date=November 6, 2022 |title=Stonewall Inn Names Event A 'Safe Space' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/06/sports/nyc-marathon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309195153/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/06/sports/nyc-marathon |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=F3 |language=en-US |id={{ProQuest|2732451864}}}}</ref><ref name="Bloodworth 2023 s619">{{cite web |last=Bloodworth |first=Adam |date=August 24, 2023 |title=Stonewall Inn Owners: Gay Marriage Could Be Taken Away |url=https://www.cityam.com/stonewall-inn-owners-we-fear-lgbtq-people-will-lose-gay-marriage/ |access-date=March 14, 2024 |website=CityAM |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314212957/https://www.cityam.com/stonewall-inn-owners-we-fear-lgbtq-people-will-lose-gay-marriage/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Developed in conjunction with six LGBTQ groups, by 2023, the program had been translated into multiple languages and was being implemented in other countries.<ref name="Bloodworth 2023 s619" /><!--Move the below to Stonewall riots?

The Stonewall Veterans Association was formed following the 1969 riots.<ref>{{cite web |last=McShane |first=Larry |last2=Reyna |first2=Rikki |date=June 22, 2019 |title=Veterans of Stonewall Era Share Stories of Gay Revolution as 50th Anniversary of Greenwich Village Uprising Looms |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/06/22/veterans-of-stonewall-era-share-stories-of-gay-revolution-as-50th-anniversary-of-greenwich-village-uprising-looms/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251}}</ref> According to its longtime director Williamson Henderson, the group originally had 113 members who were present during the riots (including the boxer [[Emile Griffith]]), though many of the group's members died of [[HIV/AIDS]] after its formation.<ref name="nyt-2015-06-05" /> The association's activities have included maintaining archives and collections related to the riots; leading the [[NYC Pride March]]; assisting people associated with the uprising; and giving speeches.<ref name="The Rainbow Times 2013 m870">{{cite web |date=May 19, 2013 |title=Stonewall Veterans' Association Commemorates 44th Anniversary |url=https://www.therainbowtimesmass.com/stonewall-veterans-association-commemorates-44th-anniversary/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=The Rainbow Times}}</ref> The group also maintains Henderson's blue 1969 Cadillac, which was parked outside the bar during the riots and is used during Pride parades.<ref name="The Rainbow Times 2013 m870" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Murphy |first=Tim |date=February 6, 2009 |title=Does It Matter Who Claims the History of the Stonewall Riots? – New York Magazine |url=https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/57200/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=New York}}</ref> The group is not formally affiliated with the current tavern, and the association's members have had a strained relationship with the bar's owners.<ref name="nyt-2015-06-05" />
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== Impact ==

=== Aftermath of the riots ===
{{Main|Stonewall riots#Legacy}}Although the Stonewall riots were [[List of LGBTQ actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots|not the first LGBTQ protests]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Biederman |first=Marcia |date=June 11, 2000 |title=Journey to an Overlooked Past |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/nyregion/journey-to-an-overlooked-past.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529205436/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/nyregion/journey-to-an-overlooked-past.html |url-status=live}}</ref> they were widely considered a watershed event for the [[gay liberation]] movement.<ref name="Armstrong" /> Many subsequent studies of [[LGBTQ history]] in the U.S. were divided into pre- and post-Stonewall analyses.<ref name="Armstrong">{{Cite journal |last1=Armstrong |first1=Elizabeth A. |last2=Crage |first2=Suzanna M. |year=2006 |title=Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth |journal=American Sociological Review |volume=71 |issue=5 |pages=724–751 |doi=10.1177/000312240607100502 |jstor=25472425 |s2cid=144545934 |id={{ProQuest|218801384}}}}</ref> Many aspects of [[LGBTQ culture|gay and lesbian culture]] from before the riots, such as bar culture formed from decades of shame and secrecy, were forcefully ignored and denied,<ref>{{harvnb|Duberman|1993|p=xv}}; {{harvnb|Adam|1987|ps=.|p=93}}</ref> and people became less afraid of being openly LGBTQ.<ref name="nyt-1994-06-23" /><ref name="Howlett 1994">{{cite news |last=Howlett |first=Debbie |date=June 24, 1994 |title=Stonewall: Kicking the Closet Open // Gay Rights Marks 25th Anniversary |work=USA Today |page=04A |id={{ProQuest|306646852}}}}</ref> The American LGBTQ community become more visible following the riots,<ref name="nyt-1994-03-27" /><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Salholz |first1=Eloise |last2=Clifton |first2=Tony |last3=Joseph |first3=Nadine |last4=Beachy |first4=Lucille |last5=McKillop |first5=Peter |date=July 3, 1989 |title=Stonewall |magazine=Newsweek |pages=56–57 |volume=114 |issue=1 |id={{ProQuest|2442871234}}}}</ref> and wider acceptance of the LGBTQ community led to the repeal of many anti-LGBTQ laws and regulations.<ref name="Mandell 1989" /><ref name="Howlett 1994" /> Even after the closure of the bar, the Stonewall riots also inspired activist movements around the U.S.<ref name="NPS pp. 19–21">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|pp=19–21}}</ref> Within two years of the riots, gay-rights groups had been founded all over the U.S.,<ref name="NPS p. 21">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=21}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Adam|1987|ps=.|p=82}}</ref> such as the [[Gay Liberation Front]] and [[Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries]].<ref name="Rajamani 2019 p318" /> The riots also inspired the creation of organizations such as the [[Lesbian Herstory Archives]].<ref name="NPS p. 17" /> According to ''The New York Times'', the riots may have influenced gay bars' design, as later gay bars tended to have areas where sexual contact was encouraged.<ref>{{cite web |last=Norman |first=Michael |date=June 16, 1983 |title=Homosexuals Confronting a Time of Change |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/16/nyregion/homosexuals-confronting-a-time-of-change.html |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311222804/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/16/nyregion/homosexuals-confronting-a-time-of-change.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Neighborhood impact ====
In part because of the riots at the Stonewall Inn, LGBTQ businesses began to congregate around Christopher Street.<ref name="wp-1982-08-01">{{Cite news |last=Wadler |first=Joyce |date=August 1, 1982 |title=No, Dorothy, You and Toto Certainly Aren't in Kansas Anymore |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/08/01/no-dorothy-you-and-toto-certainly-arent-in-kansas-anymore/e12008c4-f2e6-44e3-80e0-a26c2b2f616e/ |access-date=March 11, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> By the early 1970s, other LGBTQ businesses had opened along the street, even as the bar itself had closed.<ref name="Johnston 1971" /><ref name="Lounsberry 1972">{{Cite magazine |last=Lounsberry |first=Milton |date=July 5, 1972 |title=Remember the Stonewall(?) A Dark and Shuttered Shrine |magazine= The Advocate |page=2 |issue=89 |id={{ProQuest|2371013923}}}}</ref> A commentator for ''The Advocate'' wrote in 1972 that the riots had succeeded in associating Christopher Street's name with LGBTQ culture,<ref name="Lounsberry 1972" /> while a 1982 [[The Washington Post|''Washington Post'']] article described the street, and particularly the bar's site, as the "birthplace of the gay rights movement in this country".<ref name="wp-1982-08-01" />

The bar itself became a symbol of the LGBTQ community.<ref name="Howlett 1994" /><ref name="Gold 2019">{{Cite news |last=Gold |first=Michael |date=June 29, 2019 |title=Stonewall Uprising: 50 Years Later, A Celebration Blends Pride and Resistance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/nyregion/stonewall-inn-50-anniversary.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314201755/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/nyregion/stonewall-inn-50-anniversary.html |url-status=live}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' said in 1999 that the Stonewall Inn was "a powerful symbol of resistance".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Waldman |first=Amy |date=June 28, 1999 |title=30 Years After Stonewall, Diversity Is Shown in Gay Pride Parade |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/28/nyregion/30-years-after-stonewall-diversity-is-shown-in-gay-pride-parade.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315002230/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/28/nyregion/30-years-after-stonewall-diversity-is-shown-in-gay-pride-parade.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The Stonewall Inn has been contrasted with [[Julius Bar (New York City)|Julius Bar]] one block away (where LGBTQ activists staged [[sit-in]]s during the 1960s).<ref name="Span1994" /><ref name="nyt-1999-06-27">{{Cite news |last=Kirby |first=David |date=June 27, 1999 |title=Making It Work; Stonewall Veterans Recall the Outlaw Days |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/27/nyregion/making-it-work-stonewall-veterans-recall-the-outlaw-days.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315002229/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/27/nyregion/making-it-work-stonewall-veterans-recall-the-outlaw-days.html |url-status=live}}</ref> For example, the ''Washington Post'' wrote in 1994 that Stonewall "seems to belong to another era, one that made the notion of protesting in neckties ludicrous",<ref name="Span1994" /> while ''The New York Times'' described Stonewall in 1999 as having more-radical patrons compared with Julius's.<ref name="nyt-1999-06-27" /> The bar is also a tourist attraction,<ref>{{cite web |last=O'Flaherty |first=Mark C. |date=June 28, 2019 |title=50 Years of Pride: How New York's LGBTQ Movement Flourished Against All the Odds |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/new-york/articles/50-years-gay-pride/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref><ref name="Gold 2019" /> with thousands of annual visitors.<ref name="Lynch 2019 g721" /> The New York City government advertised the bar as a destination for people visiting LGBTQ cultural sites in 2009,<ref>{{cite web |date=April 7, 2009 |title=NYC Unveils Gay Travel Campaign |url=https://www.travelweekly.com/Destinations2001-2007/NYC-unveils-gay-travel-campaign |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=Travel Weekly |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Chan |first=Sewell |date=April 8, 2009 |title=Stonewall Uprising Given Role in Tourism Campaign |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/nyregion/08tourism.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126013341/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/nyregion/08tourism.html |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US}}</ref> and Stonewall has also been included on walking tours of LGBTQ sites.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pereira |first=Ivan |date=June 13, 2017 |title=NYC LGBTQ Sites from Stonewall Inn to Lesser-Known Spots Part of New Village Tour |url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/lesser-known-lgbtq-sites-part-of-new-village-tour-1-13734638/ |access-date=March 17, 2024 |website=amNewYork |archive-date=March 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317011946/https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/lesser-known-lgbtq-sites-part-of-new-village-tour-1-13734638/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Commemorations ====
[[File:The Plaque at Stonewall Inn.jpg|thumb|Plaque at the Stonewall Inn commemorating the Stonewall riots]]
[[Christopher Street Liberation Day]], on June 28, 1970, marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots;<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=May 13, 1970 |title=New Yorkers Plan Big Demonstration |magazine=The Advocate |page=7 |volume=4 |issue=6 |id={{ProQuest|2371028473}}}}</ref> it, along with other events hosted the same day in other cities, was the first [[Pride parade|Gay Pride march]] in U.S. history.<ref>{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|pp=19–21}}; {{harvnb|ps=.|Duberman|1993|pp=278–279}}</ref> The Pride march became the inspiration for [[gay pride parade]]s in the United States and in many other countries.<ref name="NPS p. 8">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Fosburgh |first=Lacey |date=June 29, 1970 |title=Thousands of Homosexuals Hold a Protest Rally in Central Park |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/29/archives/thousands-of-homosexuals-hold-a-protest-rally-in-central-park.html|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213085432/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/29/archives/thousands-of-homosexuals-hold-a-protest-rally-in-central-park.html?_r=0 |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |access-date=November 2, 2016 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="NYCL p. 13">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015|ps=.|p=13}}</ref> A Gay Pride march has been hosted in New York City on the final Sunday of June since the first parade in 1970,<ref name="Author 2007 v895" /> and the city government has declared June as [[Pride Month]] since 1979.<ref name="NPS p. 21" /><ref name="NYCL p. 13" /> Participants in each year's parade typically passed by the Stonewall site to pray and take pictures.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nelson |first=Meredith |date=August 17, 1999 |title=Stonewall – It Still Matters |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |page=31 |id={{ProQuest|313700206}}}}</ref> Over a million people attended a parade commemorating the 25th anniversary of the riots in 1994;<ref name="NPS p. 22">{{harvnb|National Park Service|2000|ps=.|p=22}}</ref> although the main parade did not pass by the Stonewall Inn, a smaller, unofficial group did march near the bar.<ref name="NPS p. 22" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Scott |first=Janny |date=June 27, 1994 |title=Gay Marchers Celebrate History in 2 Parades |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/27/nyregion/gay-marchers-celebrate-history-in-2-parades.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315002229/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/27/nyregion/gay-marchers-celebrate-history-in-2-parades.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

As part of the Stonewall 45 exhibit in 2014, which commemorated the 45th anniversary of the riots, the [[Arcus Foundation]] and [[Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation]] (GVSHP) placed posters in the windows of businesses on Christopher Street, including the Stonewall Inn.<ref>{{cite web |date=June 21, 2014 |title='Stonewall 45' Offers a Window Onto L.G.B.T. History |url=https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-45-offers-a-window-into-l-g-b-t-history/ |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=amNewYork |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309172835/https://www.amny.com/news/stonewall-45-offers-a-window-into-l-g-b-t-history/ |url-status=live}}</ref> After the creation of the Stonewall National Monument in 2016, [[Google.org]] donated $1 million toward a program to preserve the bar's history;<ref>{{cite web |last=Pereira |first=Ivan |date=June 18, 2017 |title=Google Donates $1 Million Toward Preserving Stonewall Inn LGBTQ Stories |url=https://www.amny.com/news/google-donates-1-million-toward-preserving-stonewall-inn-lgbtq-stories-1.13746536 |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=amNewYork |postscript=none }}; {{cite web |last=Nir |first=Sarah Maslin |date=June 17, 2017 |title=Stonewall Inn Project to Preserve Stories Behind a Gay Rights Monument |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/nyregion/stonewall-inn-lgbt-rights-google.html |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318214327/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/nyregion/stonewall-inn-lgbt-rights-google.html |url-status=live }}</ref> this became the Stonewall Forever interactive web app, launched in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Susan |date=June 4, 2019 |title=Stonewall Forever: Digital Monument Debuts 50 Years After Riots |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/04/stonewall-forever-digital-monument-debuts-50-years-after-riots/1253801001/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=USA Today |archive-date=June 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616234225/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/04/stonewall-forever-digital-monument-debuts-50-years-after-riots/1253801001/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Fitzgerald |first=Madeline |date=June 4, 2019 |title=Google Celebrates 50 Years of LGBTQ Pride with 'Living Monument' to the Stonewall Riots |url=https://time.com/5600553/google-stonewall-living-monument/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |magazine=Time}}</ref> The bar hosted a rally as part of the [[Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019]] event,<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 28, 2019 |title=Highlights From the Rally at the Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/nyregion/stonewall-riots-rally.html |access-date=March 18, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=April 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404084950/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/nyregion/stonewall-riots-rally.html |url-status=live }}</ref> which took place a half-century after the riots and, with 5 million spectators, was the [[list of largest LGBTQ events|largest international Pride celebration]] in history at the time.<ref>{{cite web |last=Allen |first=Karma |date=July 2, 2019 |title=About 5 Million People Attended WorldPride in NYC, Mayor Says |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/million-people-crowed-nyc-worldpride-mayor/story?id=64090338 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704023917/https://abcnews.go.com/US/million-people-crowed-nyc-worldpride-mayor/story?id=64090338 |archive-date=July 4, 2019 |access-date=June 5, 2021 |website=ABC News}}</ref>

=== Landmark designations ===

==== Historic district and early proposals ====
Both of the Christopher Street buildings are part of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's [[Greenwich Village Historic District]], designated in April 1969,<ref name="nyt-1999-06-26" /> and are also part of a National Register of Historic Places district with the same name.<ref name="Freiburg 1985">{{Cite magazine |last=Freiburg |first=Peter |date=January 22, 1985 |title=Stonewall Landmark |magazine=The Advocate |pages=12 |issue=412 |id={{ProQuest|2465382899}}}}</ref> Though the historic district designations provided partial protection to the buildings, they could still be renovated or demolished with the LPC's approval.<ref name="Chaban20152" />  As early as 1973, the [[Gay Activists Alliance]] had advocated for the exterior of the bar to be designated as an individual city landmark.<ref name="The Advocate 1973" /><ref name="NPS p. 21" /> [[Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International]], a support group for LGBTQ members of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]], indicated in 1985 that it would seek to have the buildings added to the NRHP as individual landmarks.<ref name="Freiburg 1985" />

==== National and city designations ====
{{See also|Stonewall National Monument}}
In early 1999, thirty years after the riots, the GVSHP and the [[Organization of Lesbian and Gay Architects and Designers]] jointly nominated the bar for inclusion on the NRHP.<ref name="Freedman 1999 j277">{{cite web |last=Freedman |first=Dan |date=June 25, 1999 |title=Gay Landmark Added to National Register |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/gay-landmark-added-to-national-register-3078501.php |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309235419/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/gay-landmark-added-to-national-register-3078501.php |url-status=live |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |title=Stonewall Inn gets top US government award |work=The Pink Paper |date=July 3, 1999 |page=6 |id={{ProQuest|2112566823}}}}</ref> The historian [[Andrew Dolkart]], who prepared the NRHP nomination, included Christopher Park and the surrounding streets in the nomination because of their role in the riots; the officers who had raided the bar were unfamiliar with Greenwich Village's irregular street grid, so they simply chased the crowd down these streets.<ref name="nyt-2022-11-21" /> The Stonewall Inn and surrounding area was formally listed on the NRHP on June 25, 1999.<ref name="nyt-1999-06-26" /><ref name="Freedman 1999 j277" /> The NRHP designation still did not fully protect the buildings from demolition,<ref name="Chaban20152" /> but the designation was nonetheless unusual, as sites were generally not added to the NRHP until at least 50 years after their period of historical significance had elapsed.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dunlap |first=David |date=February 8, 2004 |title=In Depths of Ground Zero, Historic Notice Can't Wait |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/in-depths-of-ground-zero-historic-notice-can-t-wait.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315200319/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/in-depths-of-ground-zero-historic-notice-can-t-wait.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The area was designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] in March 2000,<ref name="nhlsum" /><ref name="nyt-2000-04-02">{{Cite news |last=Wade |first=Betsy |date=April 2, 2000 |title=Travel Advisory; Landmark Status for Stonewall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/travel/travel-advisory-landmark-status-for-stonewall.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |postscript=none |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315014459/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/travel/travel-advisory-landmark-status-for-stonewall.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Sias |first=Melody |date=March 16, 2000 |title=N.Y. Gay Bar Named National Landmark |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-ny-gay-bar-named-national-l/143384988/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The Record |pages=6 |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315014459/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-ny-gay-bar-named-national-l/143384988/ |url-status=live}}</ref> a label that, at the time, was given to just three percent of all NRHP sites.<ref name="nyt-2000-04-02" /> David Carter compared the NRHP–designated streets to an "important battlefield" in 2002, saying that "you don't want to alter any part of it".<ref>{{cite web |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=June 20, 2002 |title=Blocks; PATH Project Unloved in the Village |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/nyregion/blocks-path-project-unloved-in-the-village.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518141335/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/nyregion/blocks-path-project-unloved-in-the-village.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

The GVSHP began advocating for Stonewall to be designated as an individual city landmark in January 2014, following the demolition of a [[Hoffman Auto Showroom|showroom on Park Avenue]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Katz |first1=Celeste |last2=Hensley |first2=Nicole |date=May 29, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn, Famous Greenwich Village Gay Bar, Being Considered for Landmark Status by NYC |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/05/29/stonewall-inn-famous-greenwich-village-gay-bar-being-considered-for-landmark-status-by-nyc/ |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251}}</ref> as the group wanted the buildings' appearance to be preserved.<ref name="Chaban20152" /> The LPC agreed to consider designating the bar in May 2015;<ref name="Chaban20152" /><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Humm |first1=Andy |date=May 29, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn Appears Headed for City Landmarks Status – A Gay First |url=http://gaycitynews.nyc/exclusive-stonewall-inn-appears-headed-city-landmark-status-gay-first/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819063958/http://gaycitynews.nyc/exclusive-stonewall-inn-appears-headed-city-landmark-status-gay-first/ |archive-date=August 19, 2018 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |magazine=Gay City News |postscript=none }}; {{cite web |last=Ferst |first=Devra |date=June 1, 2015 |title=Gay Rights Icon Stonewall Inn May Become City Landmark |url=https://ny.eater.com/2015/6/1/8697455/gay-rights-icon-stonewall-inn-may-become-city-landmark |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=Eater NY |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316222715/https://ny.eater.com/2015/6/1/8697455/gay-rights-icon-stonewall-inn-may-become-city-landmark |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[Real Estate Board of New York]] was among the supporters of the designation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Weill |first=Kelly |title=REBNY Backs Landmark Status for Stonewall Inn |website=Politico |date=June 23, 2015 |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2015/06/rebny-backs-landmark-status-for-stonewall-inn-090497 |access-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315014459/https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2015/06/rebny-backs-landmark-status-for-stonewall-inn-090497 |url-status=live}}</ref> The LPC voted on June 23, 2015, to protect Stonewall as a city landmark,<ref name="Chalasani 2015 r449">{{cite web |last=Chalasani |first=Radhika |date=June 23, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn Wins Landmark Status |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stonewall-inn-granted-landmark-status/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114131710/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stonewall-inn-granted-landmark-status/ |archive-date=November 14, 2023 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |publisher=CBS News |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Alroy |first=Tal Trachtman |date=June 24, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn granted landmark status by New York commission |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/23/us/stonewall-inn-landmark-status/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231222012748/https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/23/us/stonewall-inn-landmark-status/index.html |archive-date=December 22, 2023 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |publisher=CNN |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Gajanan |first=Mahita |date=June 23, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn, gay rights icon, gets official New York landmark status |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/23/stonewall-inn-new-york-landmark-lgbt |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309235429/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/23/stonewall-inn-new-york-landmark-lgbt |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=The Guardian |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |date=June 23, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn Declared a NYC Landmark |url=https://www.advocate.com/stonewall/2015/06/23/stonewall-inn-declared-nyc-landmark |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=The Advocate |postscript=none |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315014518/https://www.advocate.com/stonewall/2015/06/23/stonewall-inn-declared-nyc-landmark |url-status=live}}; {{Cite web |date=June 23, 2015 |title=NYC grants landmark status to gay rights movement building |url=http://www.northjersey.com/news/nyc-grants-landmark-status-to-gay-rights-movement-building-1.1361241 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201003/http://www.northjersey.com/news/nyc-grants-landmark-status-to-gay-rights-movement-building-1.1361241 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=June 23, 2015  |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref name="Pereira 2015">{{cite news |last1=Pereira |first1=Ivan |last2=Sinclair |first2=Carla |date=June 24, 2015 |title=Stonewall Granted Landmark Status |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |page=A30 |id={{ProQuest|1690567879}}}}</ref> which was confirmed by the [[New York City Council]] later that year.<ref>{{cite web |last=Durkin |first=Erin |date=September 30, 2015 |title=Stonewall Inn Has Long Been a Landmark in the Gay Rights Movement |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/09/30/stonewall-inn-has-long-been-a-landmark-in-the-gay-rights-movement-now-its-official/ |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316230650/https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/09/30/stonewall-inn-has-long-been-a-landmark-in-the-gay-rights-movement-now-its-official/ |url-status=live }}; {{cite web |last=Montes |first=Geoffrey |date=October 2, 2015 |title=The Stonewall Inn Is Granted Landmark Status |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/stonewall-inn-landmark-status |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=Architectural Digest }}</ref> Stonewall was, at the time, one of 50 city landmarks selected specifically for its symbolism, out of the city's 33,000 landmarked structures.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bellafante |first=Ginia |date=January 27, 2023 |title=In Affordable Housing V. Parking Lot, A Judge Chooses the Lot |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/nyregion/south-street-seaport-250-water.html |access-date=March 19, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428122624/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/nyregion/south-street-seaport-250-water.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The designation preserved the buildings' appearance but did not mandate that they continue to be used as a bar.<ref>{{cite web |last=Balsamo |first=Michael |date=May 15, 2016 |title=US Monument Status Won't Guarantee Stonewall Inn's Future |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/us-monument-status-wont-guarantee-stonewall-inns-future/725266/ |access-date=March 17, 2024 |website=NBC New York |postscript=none }}; {{cite web |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=February 17, 2016 |title=Big Risks as Landmarks Preservation Commission Moves to Prune Proposed Gems |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/arts/big-risks-as-landmarks-preservation-commission-moves-to-prune-proposed-gems.html |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105023333/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/arts/big-risks-as-landmarks-preservation-commission-moves-to-prune-proposed-gems.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Announcing the Stonewall National Monument.webm|thumb|300px|thumbtime=1:00|On June 24, 2016, President Obama designated the Stonewall Inn as part of the [[Stonewall National Monument]] (video).]]

Efforts to designate the Stonewall Inn as a [[National monument (United States)|U.S. national monument]] began in the 2010s,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Shear |first=Michael D. |date=May 4, 2016 |title=Obama May Create Monument to Gay Rights Movement |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/us/politics/obama-may-create-monument-to-gay-rights-movement.html |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |postscript=none |archive-date=March 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317003107/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/us/politics/obama-may-create-monument-to-gay-rights-movement.html |url-status=live }}; {{Cite magazine |title=Remembering Stonewall |magazine=National Parks |volume=90 |issue=4 |date=Fall 2016 |page=21 |id={{ProQuest|1825194449}}}}</ref> and three U.S. Congress members from New York formally proposed designating the buildings as a national monument in late 2015.<ref name="Wang 2016 g687" /><ref>{{cite web |date=September 20, 2015 |title=Lawmakers Call For Stonewall Inn To Be Made National Park |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/stonewall-inn-national-park/ |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=CBS New York |postscript=none }}; {{cite web |last=Feeney |first=Sheila Anne |date=September 20, 2015 |title=Pols: Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn should be a national park commemorating LGBT history |url=https://www.amny.com/news/greenwich-village-s-stonewall-inn-should-be-a-national-park-commemmorating-lgbt-history-pols-say-1.10868809 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=amNewYork |postscript=none |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316230650/https://www.amny.com/news/greenwich-village-s-stonewall-inn-should-be-a-national-park-commemmorating-lgbt-history-pols-say-1.10868809 |url-status=live }}; {{Cite news |last=Burns |first=Alexander |date=September 20, 2015 |title=Lawmakers Seek National Park in Honor of Stonewall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/nyregion/lawmakers-seek-national-park-in-honor-of-stonewall.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316230650/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/nyregion/lawmakers-seek-national-park-in-honor-of-stonewall.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Politicians and activists supported the monument designation,<ref name="Giannotta 2019 i277" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Remnick |first=Noah |date=May 10, 2016 |title=Dozens Testify in Support of Monument to Gay Rights Near Stonewall Inn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/nyregion/dozens-testify-in-support-of-monument-to-gay-rights-near-stonewall-inn.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US}}</ref> and New York Governor [[Andrew Cuomo]] signed legislation to allow the [[National Park Service]] to take over the nearby Christopher Park,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Eilperin |first=Juliet |date=May 3, 2016 |title=In N.Y., White House Poised to Create First Monument to Gay Rights Struggle |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-poised-to-create-first-monument-to-gay-rights/2016/05/03/0811810e-1154-11e6-93ae-50921721165d_story.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=June 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620135004/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-poised-to-create-first-monument-to-gay-rights/2016/05/03/0811810e-1154-11e6-93ae-50921721165d_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> though the bar buildings remained privately owned.<ref>{{harvnb|Stonewall 50 Consortium|2019|ps=.|p=5}}</ref> On June 24, 2016, Cuomo named the Stonewall Inn as a State Historic Site,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stonewall Inn State Historic Site |url=https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/41/details.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011232352/https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/41/details.aspx |archive-date=October 11, 2019 |access-date=May 16, 2019 |website=parks.ny.gov}}</ref> and U.S. President [[Barack Obama]] established a 7.7-acre (3.11 ha) area around the bar as the [[Stonewall National Monument]].<ref name="wp-2023-04-11" /><ref name="Wheaton 2016 c901">{{cite web |last=Wheaton |first=Sarah |date=June 24, 2016 |title=Obama Designates Monument to Stonewall Uprising |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/obama-stonewall-monument-224772 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001021235/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/obama-stonewall-monument-224772 |archive-date=October 1, 2022 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=Politico |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Walters |first=Joanna |date=June 24, 2016 |title=Obama declares Stonewall Inn the first national monument to LGBT rights |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/24/obama-announces-stonewall-inn-national-monument |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731195022/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/24/obama-announces-stonewall-inn-national-monument |archive-date=July 31, 2022 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=The Guardian |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Horsley |first=Scott |date=June 24, 2016 |title=Obama Names LGBT Landmark As National Monument |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/06/24/483385747/obama-names-lgbt-landmark-as-national-monument |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305140824/https://www.npr.org/2016/06/24/483385747/obama-names-lgbt-landmark-as-national-monument |archive-date=March 5, 2024 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |publisher=NPR |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Eli |date=June 24, 2016 |title=Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-national-monument-a-first-for-gay-rights-movement.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |postscript=none}}; {{Cite magazine |last=Begley |first=Sarah |date=June 27, 2016 |title=Officials Celebrate Stonewall Inn's Dedication as National Monument |url=https://time.com/4384532/stonewall-inn-dedication-national-monument/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160627213105/http://time.com/4384532/stonewall-inn-dedication-national-monument/ |archive-date=June 27, 2016 |access-date=June 27, 2016 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> Stacy Lentz supported both the city landmark and the national monument designations, calling them important for LGBTQ history.<ref name="Pereira 2015" /><ref>{{cite web |date=June 27, 2016 |title=Historic Stonewall Inn Dedicated As National Monument |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/stonewall-inn-national-monument-dedication-ceremony/ |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=CBS New York |postscript=none |archive-date=December 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231225134809/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/stonewall-inn-national-monument-dedication-ceremony/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite web |last=Kirby |first=Jen |date=June 27, 2016 |title=Stonewall Inn Is Officially Dedicated As a National Monument |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/06/stonewall-inn-dedicated-as-national-monument.html |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=Intelligencer |archive-date=September 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928075056/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/06/stonewall-inn-dedicated-as-national-monument.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Stonewall was both the first LGBTQ cultural site ever added to the NRHP<ref name="nyt-1999-06-26" /><ref name="Freedman 1999 j277" /> and the first official New York City landmark to be designated specifically based on its LGBTQ cultural significance.<ref name="Chalasani 2015 r449" /><ref name="Pereira 2015" /> In addition, the Stonewall National Monument was the first U.S. national monument designated around an LGBTQ historic site.<ref name="wp-2023-04-11" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Orangias |first1=Joe Joe |last2=Simms |first2=Jeannie |last3=French |first3=Sloane |date=August 4, 2017 |title=The Cultural Functions and Social Potential of Queer Monuments: A Preliminary Inventory and Analysis |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |volume=65 |issue=6 |pages=705–726 |doi=10.1080/00918369.2017.1364106 |issn=0091-8369 |pmid=28777713 |s2cid=33573843}}</ref>  Following Stonewall's designation as a city landmark, the LPC sought to designate other LGBTQ cultural sites, such as the [[Audre Lorde Residence]] and the [[Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center|LGBTQ Community Center]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Aviles |first=Gwen |date=May 16, 2019 |title=Historic LGBTQ Sites May Be Designated NYC Landmarks |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/historic-lgbtq-sites-may-be-designated-nyc-landmarks-n1006186 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |publisher=NBC News |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Honan |first=Katie |date=June 4, 2019 |title=Six Historic LGBT Sites in New York City Are Up for Landmark Status |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-historic-lgbt-sites-in-new-york-city-are-up-for-landmark-status-11559687575 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309195153/https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-historic-lgbt-sites-in-new-york-city-are-up-for-landmark-status-11559687575 |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Zoe |date=May 14, 2019 |title=Six historic LGBTQ sites may become NYC landmarks |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2019/5/14/18623000/lgbtq-historic-sites-new-york-landmarks |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309235419/https://ny.curbed.com/2019/5/14/18623000/lgbtq-historic-sites-new-york-landmarks |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=Curbed NY |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Conklin |first=Emily |date=May 30, 2019 |title=Six LGBTQ-related sites could be landmarked in New York City |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2019/05/lgbtq-landmarks-new-york-city/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309235420/https://www.archpaper.com/2019/05/lgbtq-landmarks-new-york-city/ |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=The Architect's Newspaper}}</ref> Other LGBTQ–related sites were added to the NRHP following Stonewall's designation, including Julius Bar, [[James Baldwin Residence]], and [[Caffe Cino]] in New York City.<ref name="Shadel 2023 i834">{{cite news |last=Shadel |first=JD |date=June 14, 2023 |title=10 LGBTQ+ Historic Sites to Visit, Beyond Stonewall |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/lgbtq-historic-places/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728174056/https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/lgbtq-historic-places/ |archive-date=July 28, 2023 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> {{As of|2023}}, it was one of 28 NRHP sites nationwide that had been designated specifically because of their LGBTQ history, out of over 90,000 total NRHP listings.<ref name="Shadel 2023 i834" />

=== Namesakes and media ===
The Stonewall Inn and the subsequent riots inspired the creation of various LGBTQ–themed works of art, such as music, literature, and visual and performing arts.<ref name="NPS p. 8" /> [[St. Martin's Press]] launched a label for LGBTQ books, Stonewall Inn Editions, in 1987;<ref>{{cite news |last=Condon |first=Garret |date=August 16, 1987 |title=Series Will Feature Gay-Oriented Books: In Paper |work=The Hartford Courant |page=G3 |issn=1047-4153 |id={{ProQuest|1081240232}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Knize |first=Perri |date=June 26, 1989 |title=Gay Books Come Out on the Counter |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-gay-books-come-out-on-the-counte/143186924/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312005733/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-gay-books-come-out-on-the-counte/143186924/ |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |access-date=March 12, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=121}}</ref><ref name="Currier 2002">{{Cite magazine |last=Currier |first=Jameson |date=June–July 2002 |title=Stonewall Inn Tumbles |magazine=Lambda Book Report |page=32 |volume=10 |issue=11 |id={{ProQuest|237006699}}}}</ref> the label was discontinued in 2002.<ref name="Currier 2002" /> Other things have been named for the bar and riots, including an LGBTQ retirement home in Massachusetts,<ref>{{cite news |last=Ritter |first=John |date=July 3, 2006 |title=Gay Seniors Settle into a Niche ; Housing Caters to Overlooked Upscale Market |work=USA Today |page=D1 |id={{ProQuest|408952175}}}}</ref> an LGBT-rights organization in [[Salt Lake City]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gudmundsen |first=Lance S. |date=December 13, 1992 |title=Stonewall Center a 'Safe House' for Gays, Lesbians |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |page=B4 |id={{ProQuest|288571705}}}}</ref> the British LGBTQ-rights group [[Stonewall (charity)|Stonewall]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Bindel |first=Julie |date=July 4, 2023 |title=Stonewall Has Captured British Banks |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/04/stonewall-has-captured-british-banks/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref> and a multi-city sports league.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deto |first=Ryan |date=June 9, 2021 |title=Stonewall Sports Provides LGBTQ Recreation Outside of Typical Avenues |url=https://www.pghcitypaper.com/news/stonewall-sports-provides-lgbtq-recreation-outside-of-typical-avenues-19621664 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Pittsburgh City Paper |language=en}}</ref> Thomas Garguilo, the bar's onetime operator, also created a Facebook page and a website about the bar's history.<ref name="Times 2018 r860" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Guynn |first=Jessica |date=October 22, 2018 |title=Facebook Takes Down Ads That Mention Race, Nationality or Identity, Calling Them Political |work=USA Today |page=A1 |id={{ProQuest|2123600878}}}}</ref>

No newsreel or TV footage was taken of the riots,<ref name="Stonewall50 p. 4" /><ref name="Weiss 2019 i460">{{cite web |last=Weiss |first=Andrea |date=June 30, 2019 |title=Creating the First Visual History of Queer Life Before Stonewall |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/before-stonewall-documentary-archives-history-invisible/592675/?page=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204224902/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/before-stonewall-documentary-archives-history-invisible/592675/?page=1 |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=The Atlantic}}</ref> and contemporary news articles did not describe the riot in detail, nor was it reported widely.<ref name="nyt-1994-06-23" /><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Thompson |first=Mark |date=June 24, 1997 |title=From the Archives of the Advocate 1969 |magazine=The Advocate |page=12 |issue=736 |id={{ProQuest|2103612910}}}}</ref> Some reporters, such as [[Fred W. McDarrah]] of ''[[The Village Voice]]''<ref>{{cite web |last=Almond |first=Kyle |date=June 27, 2019 |title=50 Years Ago, Pride Was Born. This Is What It Looked Like |url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/06/us/stonewall-pride-fred-mcdarrah-cnnphotos/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> and Joseph Ambrosini of the ''[[New York Daily News]]'', took a limited number of pictures of the riots and the bar itself.<ref name="Stonewall50 p. 4" /> Additional images of the bar during the riots' final day were published in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chan |first=Sewell |date=June 2, 2009 |title=Images From the Stonewall Uprising's Final Night |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/images-from-the-stonewall-uprisings-final-night/ |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=City Room |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315225810/https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/images-from-the-stonewall-uprisings-final-night/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The few home movies and photographs that do exist have been used in documentaries.<ref name="Weiss 2019 i460" />

The bar itself was described in various works of print media, often in association with the riots.<ref name="NPS p. 8" /> For example, [[Edmund White]]'s 1988 semi-autobiographical novel ''[[The Beautiful Room is Empty]]'' includes a first-hand account of him unintentionally encountering the Stonewall riots.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blaise |first=Clark |date=March 20, 1988 |title=Don't Give in to the Baggy Grown-Ups |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/20/books/don-t-give-in-to-the-baggy-grown-ups.html |access-date=March 12, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312005733/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/20/books/don-t-give-in-to-the-baggy-grown-ups.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Martin Duberman]]'s 1993 book ''Stonewall'' describes the bar and the events leading up to the riots,<ref>{{cite web |last=Morago |first=Greg |date=August 22, 1993 |title=Stonewall Turned Page in Gay Civil Rights History |url=https://www.courant.com/1993/08/22/stonewall-turned-page-in-gay-civil-rights-history/ |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=Hartford Courant |postscript=none |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310235124/https://www.courant.com/1993/08/22/stonewall-turned-page-in-gay-civil-rights-history/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite web |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |date=June 27, 1993 |title=Casting the First Stone : Stonewall |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-27-bk-7463-story.html |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310235126/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-27-bk-7463-story.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=January 4, 2024 |title=Book World: Stonewall Revisited |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/05/24/book-world-stonewall-revisited/5f202a51-aeb1-45c6-843b-5368975242e0/ |access-date=March 10, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> and David Carter published a book about the bar's history, ''Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution'', in 2004 for the 35th anniversary of the riots.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gorton |first=Don |date=November–December 2004 |title=What Really Happened at the Stonewall Inn? |magazine=The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide |page=37 |volume=11 |issue=6 |id={{ProQuest|198665654}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite magazine |date=April 15, 2004 |title=Stonewall: Six Days That Transformed a Political Movement |magazine=Kirkus Reviews |issue=8 |id={{ProQuest|917137799}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite magazine |last=Violette |first=Richard J. |date=May 15, 2004 |title=Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution |magazine=Library Journal |page=104 |volume=129 |issue=8 |id={{ProQuest|196866951}}}}</ref> The bar was the subject of Garguilo's 2018 novel ''Stonewall Revival: Tales Of 53 Christopher Street.''<ref name="Times 2018 r860" /><ref name="Peltz 2019 f368" /> and it was described in [[WNET]]'s 2001 television special ''A Walk in Greenwich Village''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ervolino |first=Bill |date=March 5, 2001 |title=Investigating the Nooks of Greenwich Village: [All Editions: Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B] |work=The Record |page=L07 |id={{ProQuest|425267492}}}}</ref> The riots were depicted in movies and theater as well, such as the 1995 comedy film ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=July 26, 1996 |title=Film Review; One Bar, One Uprising And Countless Changes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/26/movies/film-review-one-bar-one-uprising-and-countless-changes.html |access-date=March 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |postscript=none |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315002229/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/26/movies/film-review-one-bar-one-uprising-and-countless-changes.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |date=September 10, 2012 |title=Stonewall |url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/stonewall |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310022623/https://www.timeout.com/movies/stonewall |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=Time Out Worldwide}}</ref> the 2010 documentary ''Stonewall'' (which was based on Carter's book),<ref>{{cite web |last=Goldstein |first=Gary |date=June 20, 2010 |title=How the Stonewall Riots Changed History |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jun-20-la-ca-stonewall-20100620-story.html |access-date=March 15, 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315225812/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jun-20-la-ca-stonewall-20100620-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the 2012 play ''Hit the Wall'',<ref>{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Chris |date=February 19, 2012 |title='Hit the Wall' Is a Raw, Ambitious Telling of Historic Fight for Gay Rights |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/02/19/hit-the-wall-is-a-raw-ambitious-telling-of-historic-fight-for-gay-rights/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429045351/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-02-19/entertainment/ct-ent-0220-hit-the-wall-review-20120219_1_stonewall-inn-ike-holter-riot |archive-date=April 29, 2014 |access-date=March 18, 2024 |work=Chicago Tribune |issn=1085-6706}}</ref> and the 2015 drama film ''[[Stonewall (2015 film)|Stonewall]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Barnes |first=Henry |date=February 22, 2018 |title=Stonewall Review: There's a Riot Going On! Pity Roland Emmerich Missed It |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/18/stonewall-review-roland-emmerich-jeremy-irvine-gay-rights-tiff |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310022623/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/18/stonewall-review-roland-emmerich-jeremy-irvine-gay-rights-tiff |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |website=The Guardian |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Hornaday |first=Ann |date=September 24, 2015 |title='Stonewall,' about a pivotal point in gay history, misses the mark |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/review-stonewall-about-a-pivotal-point-in-gay-history-misses-the-mark/2015/09/23/6618d5a6-6135-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[LGBTQ culture in New York City]]
* [[List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City]]
* [[List of national monuments of the United States]]
* [[List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan below 14th Street]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan below 14th Street]]
* [[NYC Pride March]]
* [[Transgender culture of New York City]]

== References ==

=== Notes ===
{{Notelist}}

=== Citations ===
{{reflist}}

=== Sources ===
* {{cite book |last=Adam |first=Barry |author-link=Barry D. Adam |url=https://archive.org/details/riseofgaylesbian00adamrich |title=The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement |date=1987 |publisher=G. K. Hall & Co. |isbn=978-0-8057-9714-5}}
* {{Cite magazine |last=Amsel |first=Robert |date=September 15, 1987 |title=Back to Our Future?: A Walk On the Wild Side of Stonewall |magazine=The Advocate |pages=36–39, 44–49 |issue=481 |id={{ProQuest|2370993330}}}}
* {{cite book |last1=Carter |first1=David |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_2900312342691 |title=Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution |date=2004 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-0-312-34269-2 |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last1=Duberman |first1=Martin |url=https://archive.org/details/stonewall0000dube |title=Stonewall |date=1993 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-525-93602-2 |url-access=subscription}}<!-- Access only to readers with disabilities -->
* {{cite book |last=Echols |first=Alice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bXKQ3y3-NvEC |title=Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture |publisher=W. W. Norton |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-393-06675-3}}
* {{Cite thesis |last=Lustbader |first=Ken |title=Landscape of Liberation: Preserving Gay and Lesbian History in Greenwich Village |degree=Master's |publisher=Columbia University |year=1993}}<!-- Included as it has significant scholarly influence -->
* {{cite book |ref={{harvid|Mattachine Society of New York|1968}} |url=https://dcmny.org/do/dedab5e6-8b7d-473d-90d3-cb0eee22e534 |title=New York City Gay Scene Guide |date=1968 |publisher=Mattachine Society of New York |volume=1 |via=Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York |number=1 |archive-date=October 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002234357/https://dcmny.org/do/dedab5e6-8b7d-473d-90d3-cb0eee22e534 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last=McDarrah |first=Fred W. |url=https://archive.org/details/gaypridephotogra00mcda |url-access=registration |title=Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today |publisher=A Cappella Books |year=1994 |isbn=978-1-55652-214-7 |series=Wilensky-Ritzenhein Gay Book Collection}}
* {{cite book |last=Stein |first=Marc |title=The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History |publisher=NYU Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-4798-9571-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1ZxDwAAQBAJ |ref=none}}
* {{Cite report |year=2019 |title=Stonewall: The Basics |url=https://stonewall50consortium.org/stonewallfactsheet.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603221553/https://stonewall50consortium.org/stonewallfactsheet.pdf |archive-date=June 3, 2021 |ref={{harvid|Stonewall 50 Consortium|2019}} |publisher=Stonewall 50 Consortium}}
* {{cite report |title=Stonewall Inn Designation Report |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2574.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114111318/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2574.pdf |publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |archive-date=November 14, 2019 |ref={{Harvid|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2015}}}}
* {{cite report |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/88faf51a-ef6f-4f6e-b5c9-41e2d0df3e3b/ |title=Stonewall |date=February 16, 2000 |publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service |ref={{harvid|National Park Service|2000}}}}
* {{cite book |last1=Teal |first1=Donn |date=1971 |url=https://archive.org/details/gaymilitants00tealrich |url-access=registration |title=The Gay Militants |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |isbn=978-0-312-11279-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Todd |first=Matthew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVw4EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 |title=Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement |publisher=Weldon Owen |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-68188-523-0}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Stonewall Inn}}
* {{official website|http://www.thestonewallinnnyc.com}}

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