Stonewall Inn Owners: 'This Is The Gay Church. This Is Where It All Began.'

Gabriela Landazuri Saltos Just over 10 years ago, it looked like The Stonewall Inn was going out of business. “It had nothing really to do about the gay community anymore by that time,” co-owner Kurt Kelly told HuffPost. “They weren’t really taking care of the place ― let’s put it that way.” The bar now heralded as the launching point for the mainstream LGBTQ rights movement had, according to Kurt, fallen to the wayside and lost touch with its queer roots.