They quite frankly did what theyįelt they had to do. They struck back against unfair treatment. “You know, 40 years ago a group of people said, ‘Enough was enough.’ And they struck back against police officers. Quinn, the City Council speaker, who is openly gay, told reporters at a news conference Tuesday announcing the campaign. “I don’t think it’s ironic I think it’s significant,” Christine C. Of passage’ for the gay and lesbian traveler.”Ĭity officials found little remarkable in using an event associated with violence and resistance as the centerpiece of a marketing campaign. Officials hope to capitalize on the 40th anniversary of the uprising, this June, by promoting the city as a gay tourist destination.Īnnouncing a new marketing campaign under the slogan “Rainbow Pilgrimage,” tourism officials said on Tuesday that the new marketing campaign would seek to portray a visit to New York “as a ‘rite The Stonewall riots of 1969, in which protesters clashed with the authorities after a violent police raid on a Greenwich Village bar, are a defining moment in the history of the gay rights movement. Quinn, the City Council speaker, and Rosie Mendez, a Manhattan councilwoman. Fertitta, chief executive of NYC & Company, Christine C. Photos: Julienne Schaer/NYC & Company Announcing a new marketing campaign aimed at gay tourists were George A.