The little brick bar with its arched windows, the park across the street with the white figures, the banners on every building, the march coming down Christopher with its floats.
Police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street on June 28, 1969, and patrons fought back over several nights. The first pride march followed one year later. Christopher Park across the street holds George Segal's Gay Liberation sculpture, and in 2016 the site became Stonewall National Monument, the first national monument to LGBTQ history.
Source · National Park Service, Stonewall National Monument ↗
The two storey brick front with arched windows and the neon in the window, the triangular park with its benches and the four white sculptures, rainbow flags on the fire escapes, floats and marchers filling the narrow street, confetti in the air. Mood: the last sunday in june. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.