1.0 link 222010 <![CDATA[Gay Pride Parade Marks 40th Anniversary Of Stonewall Riots]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/28/gay-pride-parade-marks-40_n_222010.html (AP) -- Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage.

The annual march down Fifth Avenue commemorated the Stonewall rebellion of 40 years ago, when patrons at a gay bar resisted the police. The several days of disturbances that followed the uprising became one of the defining moments of the gay rights movement.

The celebration...

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