I party, dance, sing, shout in veneration of those leaders of the uprising movement for gay rights that allows me to be able to legally party at a gay club or any club as myself openly or just be myself anywhere. As I celebrate pride today I don't just celebrate by partying alone. It is so important for us, especially the new generation, not to forget our history and those who fought for the rights we have today that we exercise freely, at least in this part of the world. I think of all the people who died just to be able to walk the streets openly whether, gay, lesbian, bi, trans, queer or whatever you identified as. A culture of oppression was created around persecuting the LGBTQ community before 1969 and finally that same year that culture began to change.
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for both those who identified as such not knowing how to be open about it nor accepting of it for themselves in turn, those who did not identify as such and not knowing how to begin understanding. Lone Peak (David Patrick Kelly) leads a ritual for his daughter, Little Lotus (PeiJu Chien-Pott), in Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise at the Shed (photo by Stephanie Berger) The McCourt at the Shed The Bloomberg Building 545 West 30th St. It's no wonder fear pervaded the minds of people in relationship to the topic of homosexuality, queerness, lesbianism, transgender, etc. The amount of propoganda spread about homosexuality as a "mental illness" and the amount of efforts place to "treat and cure the disease" is disgusting. Johnson" and "Stonewall Uprising: PBS American Experience" brought tears to my eyes as I cringed to the societal oppression that systematically discriminated and tortured the LGBTQ community. Recently watching the documentary, "The Life and Death of Marsha P. Reflecting on this day, 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that paved the way for the gay rights movements, I can't help but to think back on how it all began.
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