Stonewall? Explaining Obama's Historic Gay-Rights Reference; NPR, 1/22/13

Liz Halloran, NPR; Stonewall? Explaining Obama's Historic Gay-Rights Reference: "From the Stonewall uprising came activists groups, gay-rights organizations, and in 1970, the first Gay Pride marches in New York and other major American cities on the anniversary of the first night of the riots. In 1999, the Stonewall Inn building, and the small streets around it, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. M. John Berry, then the assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior, told The New York Times that Stonewall was the "first such historic site recognizing the national significance and contributions of lesbians and gay men." "Even those of us who became active immediately after Stonewall never dreamed that even 40 years later there would have been enough progress to be noteworthy," Duberman said. "We would never have dreamed that a president would mention Stonewall in the same breath as Selma.""