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Why Pride Is Still as Important as Ever (Column)

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By Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-Chief For two months, Variety’s writers, editors and photographers have worked on putting together our annual Pride issue.

Given the nationwide outcry and widespread protests in response to police brutality and the senseless death of George Floyd, we considered postponing the edition.

But as we discussed it among our staff, we were reminded that Pride and activism go hand in hand. The LGBTQ rights movement was born out of the June 28, 1969 Stonewall riots.

After New York police raided the Greenwich Village gay bar, arresting and assaulting its patrons —- many of whom were queer people of color — thousands of members of the LGBTQ community took to the streets to protest discrimination.

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