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Christopher Street (Manhattan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (308 words) |
 | Christopher Street is a street in the West Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, that was at the center of New York's gay rights movement in the late 1970s. |
| Christopher Street is the first stop in Manhattan on the 33rd Street Line of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson rapid transit railroad. |
| Christopher Street is the site of the Stonewall Inn, the bar whose patrons started the 1969 Stonewall riots that are widely seen as the birth of the gay liberation movement. |
| Christopher Street Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (229 words) |
| Christopher Street Day (CSD) is an annual European LGBT celebration held in various cities across Europe. |
| It is named after the 1969 Stonewall riots that happened after a police raid against a gay bar (the Stonewall Inn) located on Christopher Street in New York City. |
| A typical Christopher Street Day Parade includes floats as well as walking groups usually provided by and made up of members of LGBT organizations, but is increasingly used also as a platform for political campaigning and commercial advertising as floats by political parties and commercially sponsored trucks are becoming more common. |
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