“A festival is a time to celebrate,” she said. “Those are acts of resistance, too.”
The first Pride celebrations came in protest
The event has its roots in the violent police raid of New York’s Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, on June 28, 1969.
The raid sparked a series of public protests and catalyzed the gay rights movement at a time when many LGBTQ+ people kept their identities to themselves.
To mark the first anniversary in June 1970, there were marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
