Read on to learn more about the 1969 riot that sparked the LGBTQ+ movement. Here, the community was free to be themselves―for the most part. Gay bars like the historic Stonewall Inn cropped up around Greenwich Village and other parts of New York. It was illegal for the community to “gather,” as this counted as “disorderly.”Īs a result, the community went underground, so to speak. What you may not know is that the year before, the first Pride was a riot.Īll the way up until the 1960s, New York City, like the rest of America, criminalized the LGBTQ+ community.
June of 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Christopher Street Liberation Day march, the earliest version of what we now call the Pride parade.
