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This year, #PrideMonth returned to its roots.
Protests throughout June calling for an end to police violence prompted comparisons to another similar movement: the 1969 Stonewall riots, a seminal moment in LGBTQ+ history. (A thread 
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In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York City's Greenwich Village. Police raids and violence toward the LGBTQ+ community were common, but that night patrons fought back against the harassment. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …
The raid prompted days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement, and created a galvanizing moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. Today, Pride Day is still celebrated on June 28 in honor of Stonewall. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …
But often erased from Stonewall’s history are the trans women of color who were at the center of it. After the dust settled, transgender activists emerged as vanguards of the gay rights movement. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …pic.twitter.com/6qawsdlf6z
Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans woman, is often credited with throwing the first brick — or in other versions, a shot glass — at Stonewall. Johnson later said she arrived after rioting was underway. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …
Though the specific details surrounding the riot are hotly debated, Johnson and her friend Sylvia Rivera, a Latinx trans woman, are generally acknowledged as frontline fighters at Stonewall. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …
Both Johnson and Rivera went on to become pioneering transgender activists. However, following Stonewall, trans women were quickly pushed to the margins. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …
Johnson and Rivera were active in the influential Gay Liberation Front (GLF). But within a year of the riots, a separate, more conservative movement, the Gay Activists Alliance, formed in part to center a more respectable image led by mostly white gay men. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …
By the fourth anniversary of Stonewall, parade organizers had banned “drag queens.” So Johnson and Rivera marched in front of the official parade banner, just outside of the event. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the riots in 2019, the City of New York announced that a statue of Johnson and Rivera will be erected near the Stonewall Inn. It will be the world’s first permanent public monument honoring transgender women. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …pic.twitter.com/eSa8t9WBhK
Neither of the women would live to see their contributions to the LGBTQ+ movement honored: Johnson died under mysterious circumstances in 1992. A decade later, Rivera succumbed to liver cancer. https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/point-of-pride …
This year's New York City Pride march was met with police violence, much like in 1969. Although it's unclear how the clash started, news reports and videos across social media show police circling protesters, shoving them and swinging their batons.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/stonewall-anniversary-queer-march-nypd-force …
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