June marks Pride Month which celebrates everyone in the LGBTQ community. The month also honors the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
Otherwise known as the Stonewall Uprising, which saw members of the LGBTQ community fight back against harassment from the police in Greenwich Village in June 1969.
Stonewall is still unfolding today. The year leading up to its 50th anniversary has served a constant flow of corrections, retellings, and contradictions amid a general fumbling toward the many truths of what happened in 1969 and what it signifies to us now.
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| PRIDE image by Golden Cosmos |
In New York City we come together in this spirit, remembering to fight for liberation, dignity, self, and communal determination.
*We have chosen to use the phrase Queer as an umbrella category to represent the wide span of sexual and gender minorities and outlaws who have historically and currently been oppressed.
“Queer” signals for us a political stance of rebellion and a demand for liberation more-so than simply an identity category. We are trans, bisexual, lesbian, gay, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, non-binary, and gender non-conforming individuals and communities.
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