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Meet Local LGBTQ Freedom Fighters As They Prepare for the 2019 OC Pride Festival

The first Orange County Pride Cultural Festival was a rather small affair in Santa Ana during the summer of 1989, but the event’s roots actually date back 20 years earlier—to New York City. A police raid of Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn in the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, led to spontaneous and violent demonstrations …

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Source: OC Weekly

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