Pictures of gay pride nyc2/4/2024 In the years following Stonewall, early pride marches began bringing together thousands of queer people and allies for gatherings that would make it well known, from chants in city streets to the pages and screens of newspapers and TV, that we were here and proudly queer. And it is impossible to tell the story of the 50 years that have followed without talking about visibility. Yet it was Stonewall that catalyzed a movement that had been growing for decades, bringing a new level of visibility to our community’s fight for recognition and equality. Across the country, groups like the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis had been organizing queer people and agitating for our rights since the early 1950s demonstrations like the Compton’s Cafeteria riots in San Francisco and The Black Cat bar protest in Los Angeles saw queer and trans people gather against police intimidation and raids on our community years before June, 1969. The story of the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement does not begin at the Stonewall Inn.
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