Majority Leader Hoyer Issues Statement on 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Uprising
June 28, 2019
June 28, 2019
WASHINGTON, June 28 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising:
"As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising today, we do so at a time of great change and great progress. The courageous LGBTQ Americans who stood up against oppression and persecution in New York on the night of June 28, 1969, did so at a time when the idea of LGBTQ equality felt, for many, una . . .
"As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising today, we do so at a time of great change and great progress. The courageous LGBTQ Americans who stood up against oppression and persecution in New York on the night of June 28, 1969, did so at a time when the idea of LGBTQ equality felt, for many, una . . .