Many Gay Pride events are held annually during the month of June to recognize and reflect on the impact LGBTQ people have had on the world.
This year, New York City celebrates the Pride Month with a special commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. This 58-minute program starts with a short montage of the 1st and largest ever NYC Pride Parade in conjunction with the WorldPride Parade and Stonewall 50 celebration. The show then features the special ”Love and Resistance Stonewall50” exhibition curated by the New York Public Library and its related panel discussion program on the ”Past and Future of the Queer Press” with founding members of the Gay Liberation Front including Michael Bronski, Perry Brass and Karla Jay.
Through the discussion and series of celebrating events, it is to hope that the new generation can appreciate and reflect on those pioneers before them who dared to be out of the closet and spoke up, battled hard for a room to be noticed and cared to fight equal rights.
After series of intensive celebrations, another long half century to fight and challenge.
