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Today, June 1, is the start of #PrideMonth.
Pride was organized to commemorate an uprising in the summer of 1969 at the #Stonewall Inn when a group of queer folks decided they had had enough with bigotry and police abuse.
Our history:
Pride was organized to commemorate an uprising in the summer of 1969 at the #Stonewall Inn when a group of queer folks decided they had had enough with bigotry and police abuse.
Our history:
The week following the protests, Village Voice writer Howard Smith described the "strange mood" when when police first ejected Stonewall’s patrons out onto the sidewalk under a full moon. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lgbtq-history-month-road-america-s-first-gay-pride-march-n917096
With just a handful of police reports, news articles and photos from the now-historic Stonewall uprising, much of what is known about the multiday resistance comes from oral history. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/stonewall-police-records-shed-new-light-1969-uprising-n1022251
WATCH: A routine police raid on an unlicensed West Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, turned into the spark that fueled the modern-day LGBTQ rights movement. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/stonewall-50-the-revolution-episode-2-part-1-61779013920
"People of color, drag queens, underage street kids...had already dealt with the police a lot and were often much fiercer in dealing with policing than white middle-class college students or business people would have been,” said historian George Chauncey. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/when-it-comes-stonewall-myths-are-famous-riots-n1016616
