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LGBTQ people fought back against years of oppression.

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Today, this history lives on around the world.

It lives in moments big...

This is who I am!

(narrator) ...and small.

In voices old...

Revolution now!

(narrator) ...and new.

I'm a queer person.

I am so powerful.

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

Sometimes we can mark that progress in special places.

One of these special places is the Stonewall Inn.

(Jonathan Jarvis) The first National Monument dedicated

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

and their fight for equal rights.

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

with support from the National Parks Service and Google,

is working to preserve this story

and bring it to as many people as possible,

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

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

by capturing the voices at the front of the fight.

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

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

And bringing them all together in a living monument.

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

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

(narrator) For everyone, everywhere,

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

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