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:
"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">https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/n...
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