Kelowna Hardiness Zones and Maps. Kelowna is located in Canadian plant hardiness zone 6a near Okanagan Lake, supporting a wide variety of ornamental and native plants. Winter temperatures become cooler at higher elevations and further away from the influence of the lake.
The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, ...
THE HISTORIC STONEWALL INN. W elcome to where Gay Pride began! The legendary Stonewall Inn is the birthplace of the modern Gay Rights movement. On June 28th, 1969, the patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back against what had become regular, tolerated, city sanctioned harassment by the police department. For the first time in history Gay people refused to accept the status quo of oppression and stood up for themselves and, ultimately, the global Gay community.