Pride is an ongoing global party these days. It’s an excuse for everyone to take to the streets in the most outrageous outfits to celebrate the freedom to just be themselves. But this festival has a long – over 50 years! – history in the struggle for equal rights for the LGBTQI+ community, and this is often forgotten.
It all started with a riot outside the Stonewall Inn in New York, after the police raided a bar frequented by the community one time too many. The following year, that same community came back to those very streets to march and celebrate the day that they stood up for themselves; the year they asserted their pride; the fact they weren’t going to live in the shame that society had put on them anymore.
Now it’s not only the major cities – New York, London, Madrid, Paris, Sydney – that celebrate Pride, it’s people in small towns, tiny communities, different races, different gender identities, all with their own unique issues, all celebrating their pride in themselves as human beings. And if those celebrations include body glitter and champagne, then so be it!
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