PRIDE in current times is largely an opportunity to celebrate being LGBTQ+, our authenticity and our wins over the years, but we must not forget our history and what ignited the modern day LGBTQ+ rights movement. That night PRIDE began, not with a festival or a celebration, pride began as a riot – the Stonewall Riots. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera with an army of drag queens and people of many colors took to the streets outside of the Stonewall Inn. It’s been more than 50 years since icons Marsha P.
