Gay Rights Supporters Mark Anniversary (Philadelphia)

[varun]

So it wasn't Stonewall, but Philly?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=8&u=/ap/20050502/ap_on_re_us/gay_rights_rally

By JANICE PODSADA, Associated Press Writer
Mon May 2, 7:16 AM ET

PHILADELPHIA - In the summer of 1965, a group of 40 protesters marched in front of Independence Hall and denounced public policies that labeled gays as mentally ill and a national security risk.

Forty years later, hundreds of gay rights supporters crowded into a nearby historic church for an interfaith service celebrating what some have called the nation's first gay rights demonstration.

Sunday's service at Christ Church included a sermon by the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, who called for an end to discrimination against homosexuals...