LGBT special

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In June 1969, the gay community in New York responded to police brutality and harassment by rioting outside the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. The protest sparked the creation of the modern LGBT rights movement and the first Gay Pride events. We hear from Stonewall veteran, John O'Brien. Plus, how the LGBT community in China use "Cooperative Marriages" to avoid family pressure, LGBT activism in Ivory Coast and the story of Anne Lister, the 19th century Englishwoman sometimes considered the first "modern lesbian". PHOTO: Exterior of the Stonewall Inn, pictured in June 2015 (Credit: Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)