Watch Elton John deliver emotional, powerful speech alongside Joe Biden and Katy Perry at Stonewall Inn
"Stonewall serves as a National Monument where generations to come will learn the important lessons of this essential history so that we do not repeat it because the job isn't done over," he continued,across America this year, calling it "disgraceful". The NYPD raided the bar, but the patrol wagons for the arrested patrons took longer to arrive than expected and a fight broke out when police tried to restrain the growing crowds, knocking down many innocent bystanders which incited further violence and by 4am the police had barricaded themselves inside the bar.
In December 2005, the couple officially entered a civil partnership, becoming one of the first UK couples to do so. When gay marriage was legalized in the UK in 2014, they tied the knot.