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Jun 27 2009, Pierre P.

What is a “27 June” about?

Forty years ago rebellion at a gay pub in the heart of New York City, in Stonewall Bar opened a new era in politics and social justice, extended far beyond woody doors of then not-so-top establishment.

Perhaps, a...

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