Pride protest

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 I cannot emphasize enough how much of an impact the LGBTQIA+ community has had on my life. From family members, to friends, to coworkers- these relationships have been irreplaceable. Pride is and always has been a protest. I encourage everyone to study queer history, there is always more to learn. A reminder as a shop owner: honoring pride month is not lip service for me. People I love and protect are a part of the community and I will always stand up for them. If…

From NYC's first Pride parade in 1970 to a monumental Supreme Court ruling in 2020, here's a timeline of the LGBTQ rights movement in the US.

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June is Pride Month, with marches and festivals taking place in many places around the world. While the fight for freedom, acceptance, and protection is far from won in many places, it is still a time of celebration, fun, and outrageous color and glamor, something that the LGBTQ+ community does extremely well!

Like most civil rights movements in the U.S., the gay rights movement began much earlier than popular histories tell us, dating at least as far back the early 1950s with the founding of the Mattachine Society. Named after medieval bards who wandered around challenging injustices, the society had some impressive early success, then fractured over … Continue reading "How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s"