Happy Pride Month_

Pride month honors and celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community. But do you know why Pride is celebrated in June? In New York City on June 28, 1969, a gay club was raided leading to a weeklong of riots and protests, referred to as the Stonewall Uprising.  

 

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are widely recognized as revolutionaries who played a pivotal role in the groundbreaking Stonewall protests that sparked an increase in LGTQIA+ activism. 

 

Johnson and Rivera dedicated their lives to advocacy for equal rights. We wouldn’t be where we are today without the work of Johnson and Rivera.  

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“No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us”

—Marsha P. Johsnon