Marc Segal 51 years ago at the Stonewall Inn, LGBTQ people took to the streets to change the world. Today, we have the chance to heed the call to help change the world again Mark Segal | Special Contributor As someone who participated in the Stonewall riots back in June 1969, many people have been asking me the similarities between that event and the events, civil unrest and demonstrations that have followed the murder of George Floyd.
They want to know if the two events — and the people pushing for change — share a connecting factor. In May of 1969, when I was 18 years old, I moved to New York to escape a closeted life of lies.