News has compiled a list of the top destinations to celebrate Pride nationwide. With many people traveling again, most in-person events are resuming across the country. This parade drew thousands of marchers and prompted other cities to hold Pride events, which evolved into annual celebrations in June. On the anniversary of Stonewall in 1970, activists held a march known as Christopher Street Liberation Day in New York to commemorate the uprising on that very street a year before. Similar homophobic and transphobic persecution by police had previously sparked other uprisings in the U.S., such as nearly three years earlier in San Francisco at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria, or a decade before in Los Angeles’ Cooper Do-nuts. The world-famous Stonewall built on years of LGBTQ activism. Fed up with the frequent raids and harassment from law enforcement, both patrons and local residents began to fight back, leading to six days of protests and clashes between LGBTQ people and police.
On June 28, 1969, in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village, police raided a popular gay bar: the Stonewall Inn.
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