We as a community use Gay Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the brink of the gay rights movement and the single most important series of events leading to the modern fight for gay and lesbian equality in the United States. The series of violent and spontaneous demonstrations by the NYC gay community against police raids at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in ’69 not only sparked a movement but it also gave our community a reason to celebrate. It showed the world “we’re here, and we’re queer” and there was nothing anyone could do about it.
