Pride is a Protest

Pride started as a riot. As everyone knows (or should know by now), Pride commemorates a riot at the Stonewall Inn. A riot that lasted six whole days, and changed the course of the gay rights movement from one of assimilationism to the celebration of queerness. And two of the main leaders, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, were Latinx and Black drag queens.

A major LGBT rights organization in the UK (which only added the T relatively recently) was named Stonewall to commemorate the riot. P...