June 27, 2019
Greenwich Village, New York City (CNN) — When Maria-Elena Grant stops by the Cubbyholein Greenwich Village after work for a drink with friends, she can't help but remember the battles she's fought along the way.
A longtime hangout for lesbians and their friends, the Cubbyhole is one of the few lesbian bars in a neighborhood where the modern gay rights movement got national attention after a police raid at the nearby Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969.
The first pride march took place the following year, as LGBTQ people in New York Citymarched to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising -- and to fight for their rights.
"The gay pride parade wasn't a parade," Grant said. "It was a march, it was like a civil disobedience, it was a demonstration. It wasn't like having a fancy corporate float and all this money ... It was a civil rights action."
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