Stonewall: 50th Anniversary

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It’s Stonewall Day! Fifty years ago today, the police raided a bar in the Village of New York City, and two transgender women of color decided they’d had enough. They, along with other patrons, kicked off a riot that would bring the gay rights movement out of the shadows and into the light.

The fight is real and it is every day. We remember today because the fight isn’t over and because Martha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are heroes. They helped trans and gay youth living on the streets, and they showed everyone that every single person has value. I couldn’t be more proud to be queer, I couldn’t be more out than I am, because they and so many others came before me.