Cate Blanchett ....The performance was part of a benefit to end gun violence that was organized by the Newtown Action Alliance in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre.

Cady Lang, TIME

"That was the message from thousands of LGBTQ supporters who took to New York City streets Saturday afternoon to protest President Donald Trump’s now-blocked travel ban, immigration policies..."

By Sebastian Murdock and Andy Campbell, The Huffington Post

"Truth be told, the Stonewall Inn was nothing special…But how many Americans today would know what the acronym LGBT meant if not for what happened there in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, and during the six days that came after?"

by Jonathan Capehart, The Washington Post

"We can’t rest. We’ve got to keep pushing for equality and acceptance and tolerance."

—President Barack Obama

—President Obama announced Friday that he had dedicated the area around New York City’s Stonewall Inn, perhaps the place most closely aligned with the modern LGBT rights movement, as a national monument.

Katy Steinmetz, Time

"President Obama on Friday designated the first national monument to the gay rights movement, commemorating the Stonewall uprising in New York City nearly five decades ago."

By David Nakamura and Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post

"President Barack Obama announced Friday he was designating the area around the Stonewall Inn in New York City as the country's first national monument to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights."

By Katia Hetter and Kevin Liptak, CNN

"U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and U.N. envoys from 16 other countries visited the Stonewall Inn which helped spark the modern gay rights movement and vowed to step up their fight for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people around the world."

by ASSOCIATED PRESS

"From a thousand miles away, they watched as the horrors replayed in an endless loop, the death count climbing to an unimaginable high. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender New Yorkers coping with news of the massacre in Orlando, Fla., the grief was compounded by a sense of helplessness."

By NOAH REMNICK, New York Times

"Global celebrations of LGBT pride have taken place in London, Rome, and Toronto, but they have never taken place in the city that’s arguably the birthplace of the movement — New York. But that’s all about to change."

By Joseph Neese, MSNBC