This year, Pride will be celebrated – for many in-person for the first time in two years – with nationwide parades and education events at schools and community centers.
LGBTQ history and its Pride celebrations are rooted in activism and protest, and the tradition of fighting for rights, acceptance and visibility has followed the community from past to present.Sign up for our subscriber-only texting experience.The month of June, designated as Pride Month, has its origins in one of the most well-known LGBTQ activist events: the Stonewall Riots.
On June 28, 1969, police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York City, attempting to arrest those inside. Frequent raids of gay bars across the city had escalated frustration toward police and led patrons, includingThe raid was followed by days of riots and protests involving hundreds of people clashing with police. can be visited today and was designated as a National Monument in 2016.
While activism was a core part of the community before Stonewall, the riots drew attention to the experience of LGBTQ individuals across the country, according to Cathy Renna, Communications Director for the National LGBTQ Task Force.The year following the riots, some of the first Gay Pride parades were held in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, but not all members of the LGBTQ community were included.
"The reality is that most of the folks on the front lines at the Stonewall uprising were trans women, trans women of color, other people of color, butch lesbians. And yet somehow, the power that was coming together ... to put together Pride events was from cisgender gay white men," Renna told USA TODAY."There has always been some tension but in the early days, it was very, very, dramatic and stark ...
The celebrations continued expanding on their activist roots in the 1980s and 1990s with the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and those that followed have been used as platforms to draw attention to topics from marriage equality to racial justice.
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