The NYC Pride March will broadcast live from 12 pm to 3 pm ET. The powerful six-part docu-series Pride, streaming on Hulu, shows the impact of the riots as it chronicles the LGBTQ civil rights fight in America from the 1950s to the present. The confrontations lasted for several more days with the crowds growing in size and ferocity. At the time, raids by cops on the few gay clubs that existed were commonplace and antigay laws were on the books from coast to coast.
It commemorates a riot where gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans people fought back against a violent police raid on the Stonewall Bar in the late-night hours of June 28, 1969. The mood for Pride is usually bright and cheery, but its origins are anything but. For older generations of LGBTQ folks, it brought back shockwaves reminiscent of the frightening early days of the AIDS epidemic, when gay people were left to care for each other while no one else, including the government, would. Last year for Pride, instead of waving flags of resistance and dancing in the streets, we stayed home, hidden behind masks and unsure of when we’d be able to be together again.
