India, June 29 -- Like the song that goes, "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair," I often tell my friends, half-jokingly, "If you are coming to New York, do three things: Meet Hasan Mujtaba, visit the Strand Book Store - the legendary bookstore of new, used, and rare books - and see the Stonewall Inn."

For me, the Stonewall Inn is a pilgrimage, a rainbow of history, and the Mecca of the gay liberation movement, where even straight people are warmly welcomed. It is where it all happened.

Many historians of the LGBTQIA+ movement recount that during the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, a defiant act by the legendary drag queen Marsha P Johnson became a symbol of resistance. The police raid on the bar o...