Why gay pride?

Gay Pride has been an ongoing revolution. It began with Judy Garland's Death which sparked the StoneWall Riots. People wanted to give her a parade, but the Stone Wall street was blocked with uniformed officers and officials. This began the first Gay Pride Parade. The officers threatened us with violence if we even set foot on the street. Thousands of gay people were brave. They walked right through these armed officials. Many got killed, wounded. They kept marching through. Judy Garland's death brought our community together, and they decided to not be kept under a rock. The gay rainbow, is from the song. Back then, we had no Growlr. People used a code, "I'm a friend of Dorothy." to let someone know they were gay. Gays looked to the song, that someday we will fly over the rainbow like Dorothy did. Sure, now...most gay prides are a fun dance party. But, it began with us barricaded, forbidden to be gay visible. Back then, you had to hide it. We are so lucky to have come so far today. In Russia, they have gone backwards. History is repeating there as we speak, and it's far worse than StoneWall days. It's scary. When Pride comes to your town, it's not about the music and the dance. It's about our fight for equality, look how far we've come. LA PRIDE, you see officers in the actual parade dancing. Families. It's about loving who you are and embracing what our gay ancestors did. Everytime you see a gay rainbow. That's the flag of our revolution. And, we never know how long we have our freedom for. All it takes is bad corrupt government to change our fate in a heartbeat. 10 years from now, hopefully WE will be accepted equally. All we want is to be treated with the same rights as every other human taxpayer. We do not have full gay rights yet. Gay Pride = Our Independence Day. When it comes to your town...hope you will appreciate the freedom we have today. Our ancestors died, got hurt for us to have our freedoms today. And, to not be barricaded.

I didn't read all of that, but you better lash.

This was in response to an earlier dead post, in which the topic creator who is gay, (and young), was asking why we even have a Pride. Just dance, have music and .... Its not about all that. At all! That's the bonus.

And, it's also about Judy Garland and the rainbow! :-). I love the history, that it was her funeral that sparked it all! They wanted to keep us barricaded that day. Judy gave us strength. Perhaps it was her spirit! She knew she was loved by our community.

Girl you better school them ignorant gheys.

Judy Garland did not start the stonewall riots. SMH. It was the beating and abuse homeless gays and gays in general received by the police and outsiders.


Judy Garland is a gay icon but besides that she has nothing to do w the gays and their struggles. Judy was neutral w gays.

yesss baby you were born this way xo

Its been debated throughout the history, but Judy is the spark of our Gay Rainbows. And, it was her funeral that sparked the initial outrage. It was a combination of sorts; gay homeless, people getting barricaded. But, it was her funeral that sparked the ignition to fight. Other people got involved for multi reasons. But, the entire reason the force was out on the streets that day, officials were afraid the gays would honor her funeral in the streets. They blocked the streets for that reason.

Saying that it was because of some famous actress makes our cause look so dumb and mocks the real reason and the struggle which really caused the stonewall riot. Please read more.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots


It was a police raid, not a funeral for a famous actress that cause the riot. My goodness.....

Her death was the entire reason, the officials and force were blocking the streets that day. Officials were afraid of us gays honoring her death.

I believe Judy was the motivator that brougt us together. Other Gay People got involved for everyone's rights! It was multi- purpose. But, in a way...it was her essence that gave new fear to the armed forces that day, "keep the gays away!" it was our day for all our own reasons!

And I can't believe you said that the rainbow flag was because of Judy Garland. It was actually created in the 1970s way after Judy's death and it symbolizes diversity, not Judy's "over the rainbow"


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainb...(LGBT_movement)

Imo it should be called EQUALITY PRIDE though, I feel like it should be a celebration of acceptance and love and the few prides I've been to have been quite explicit and mostly filled with drunk people giving blowjobs to randomers and bitchiness

Baker was inspired by "Somewhere Over The Rainbow," when he created it.

you created the mess tho

Hehehe; i just read an article where the writer contradicted himself. Yes, STONEWALL INN raid happened IMMEDIATELY after JUDY's funeral. His whole article said that she had nothing to do with it, yet he admitted that the gays were "more emotional that day because of her death."

There ya go! Her spirit was in the hearts at that exact moment. she WAS the reason why police force were strong that day against us, and the reason we were more emotional. Her spirit and her energy....i believe it's all connected. It was that emotion...that sparked our strive....

Teach 'em

Gay pride is not what it used to be, and stand for. Now it's all about clubbing, having sex, getting drunk, and doing drugs. Everyone just goes to party now. Also, people running down the street in their underwear almost naked and shoving glitter and rainbows down peoples throats is not going to make anyone more accepting of them. Just my opinion though..

There are always a huge group of older LGBT people behaving in the exact same way, it's embarrassing.

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