A Pride Parade is an annual event of the LGBTQ+ movement that takes place in various cities around the world in order to proudly exhibit a diversity of sexual orientations and genders. It is also an event to commemorate people in the community who have lost their lives to hate crimes. This event is usually held in the month of June. it is a great event that completely takes over the streets with millions of people. This day contains various celebrations such as parades, parades, parties, concerts, and seminars. The first march was on June 28, 1970, beginning through Lower Manhattan traversing south on Fifth Avenue, through Greenwich Village. But how did this event start? Why does it happen? In 1967 a member of a mafia opened a "private" gay bar called the Stone Inn. A bar in which he assumed "freedom" of expression for members of the LGBTQ + community who at that time were persecuted by the police as they were considered "disorderly" people. On June 28, 1969, at 1:20 in the morning, there was a police raid which was very common in LGBTQ+ bars. However, people were already tired of the abuses that they had to constantly experience by the police and civilians who committed hate crimes, it was not the first time that the community expressed its disagreement about the lack of validity of their rights as human beings. While the police had held people inside the bar, the angry crowd was growing outside the bar. In this event, a historic action called "The first brick was thrown at Stonewall" occurred. No one knows who threw it, but from here began one of the turning points in the community's activist movement. This confrontation with the police lasted six nights, the first and last being the strongest. in the riots, there were several arrests, looted stores, etc. Since that day the LGBTQ + movement achieved greater public visibility, generating an unstoppable movement that we can still see today in the great Pride Parade.
This photograph was taken by photographer Frederick William McDarrah during and after the Stonewall riots.
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