The Pride parade we have now is only possible because the first gay pride was a Riot!įollow Mental Anonymity on WordPress. Remember them before you have the audacity to exclude anyone who isn’t a cis white gay person from your community or write things like “no fats, no femmes, no Asians” on your dating profiles (looking specifically at you, white gay men, on that one). NEW YORK (AP) Organizers of New York City’s Pride events said Saturday they are banning police and other law enforcement from marching in their huge annual parade until at least 2025 and. Remember that when you’re waving feminist posters with words like “Pussy grabs back”, that womanhood should never be equated with ovaries. The streets were alive with pride in Vancouver as an estimated 700,000 spectators flocked to the streets for the annual gay pride parade. The New York Pride Parade was emulated in large and small cities in. Remember them the next time you or someone around you tries to exclude trans people from the lgbtq+ narrative and says “but she’s not reeeeaally a woman”. The 1970 demonstration encouraged activists to stage the first gay pride parade in NYC. Remember that when you go to Pride this year. Without their will, effort, passion and struggles, we would not have gotten here.
Johnson and Sylvia Rivera who were the first to resist under the law and were outspoken activists throughout their lives to help our community become what it is today. What a great day to remember that trans women of color were at the forefront of the lgbtq+ movement and that we wouldn’t have come as far as we have without them.
