Pride is being recognized amid the protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has become a stark reminder that these modern-day celebrations once started as a protest. “We were enraged because, in a sense, 2,000 years of repression built up in us.
And the New York City Police Department that night, when they violently came into Stonewall and beat people up against the wall and extorted money from people, got us angry,” continues the now-69-year-old activist and journalist, who has since written the memoir .
Putting things into context, he explains that there was a growing sense of urgency and a need to stand up for the LGBTQ community amid Black people and women fighting for civil rights and equality. “And it was that.
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