Stonewall Inn on track to be named historical landmark

Next week, the Stonewall Inn begins the process of being New York City's first overtly LGBTI historical landmark.
According to the New York Times, on Tuesday (2 June) the city Landmark Preservation Commission will vote to add the building to its calendar. Once a property is put on the commission’s calendar, the road to landmark status is virtually assured.
The establishment is located on Christopher Street, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood. 'The agency has been working on this for some time and LGBT pride month is an ideal occasion to recommend this iconic cultural landmark,'
Meenakshi Srinivasan, the commission’s chair, said in a statement, according to the New York Times The bar is listed on the federal National Register of Historic Places.
The Stonewall Inn is seen as the epicenter of the modern LGBT rights movement. In 1969 June, the Mafia run bar was raided by city police. Tired of constant harassment, such raids were common, patrons fought against the officers causing riots and marches that lasted days. A year later the first pride parade, sponsored by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, was held.