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A spark, a movement and now, a monument.
On June 26, thousands of participants in New York City's pride parade marched past the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. The route and the cheers weren't unusual, but the circumstances were: Just two days earlier, President Barack Obama had formally declared the bar and its surrounding area the Stonewall National Monument. It is the first National Park Service site dedicated to telling a piece of...