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It’s 40 years this summer since the Stonewall Riots marked the symbolic birth of gay liberation.
But what really happened at those events in New York in June 1969 – and what did they mean for lesbian and gay people in the UK?
Join a line-up of experts, performers and witnesses including Professor Jeffrey Weeks, Lindsay River, Rikki Beadle-Blair and Michael Twaits for an exploration of gay history’s most significant anniversary.
Stonewall 40
Thursday 16 July 2009, 7.45pm
Purcell Room
Southbank Centre
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