Today is June 1st, the beginning of LGBTQ Pride Month, a celebration rooted in resistance, not rainbow-washed symbolism.
Pride began after the Stonewall Uprising in June 1969, when LGBTQ people in New York City fought back against police brutality, raids, humiliation, and criminalization.
For too long, queer and trans people were targeted simply for existing, gathering, loving, dressing, and living out loud. Stonewall was not the beginning of LGBTQ history, but it became a turning point in the movement for liberation.
Icons like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and countless unnamed Black, Brown, trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and gender-nonconforming people helped push the struggle forward.
Pride is joy, but it is also protest. It reminds us that rights were not handed over politely. They were demanded in the streets by people who refused to disappear.
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