Pride has always been about the fight for queer rights, and many members of the LGBTQ+ community opted for alt events this year that focused on protest over party
This new version of Pride, Rosenwald tells MTV News, feels like too much of a celebration. She attendedbecause she wanted to be with friends, but says aspects of the event felt “hypocritical” in contrast to the anti-establishment, anti-police violence origins of the queer liberation movement.
“It feels deliberately ignorant that now there are rainbow police cars and cops in the [Pride] parade,” she added. For her, a pink-washed pride feels especially glaring given recent news: that this year alone,have been murdered or found dead. Their deaths were part of what activists like Johnson and Rivera were fighting to prevent.
Of the young people MTV News spoke with at World Pride, most associated the start of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the U.S. with the Stonewall riots, which served as a breaking point. But LGBTQ+ Americans had already made great strides in visibility by then: The first documented LGBTQ+ rights group in the country,same-sex couples and gender variance have existed “in every documented culture” across every continent, according to the American Psychological Association.
When the Stonewall riots erupted in the 1960s, police had begun cracking down on underground bars and paying particular attention to gay bars like The Stonewall Inn, which was run by the mob and selling liquor without an alcohol license at the time,. But its clientele were also victims of systemic homophobia, transphobia, racism, and classism. Police thought LGBTQ+ people, especially the young people of color who frequented Stonewall, would be an easy target.
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