Love is Love
This year, due to the coronavirus, most of the June parades have been cancelled. In their place, a single Global Pride to be streamed on June 27

The Origins of Pride

The term Pride includes the entire LGBT galaxy (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) who celebrates their pride in June under the banner of the rainbow flag of the different sexual orientations.

Pride means the response and reaction to the stigma of the past, which found a date of birth in the uprisings of Stonewall in 1969.
The ‘Stonewall Inn’ is a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village in New York. On the night between Friday 27 June and Saturday 28 June 1969 the police broke into – 8 agents, only one of whom was in uniform – in the club for one of the then frequent raids in bars and clubs frequented by homosexuals, during which those present were identified, their personal details were noted and the police sometimes raged for violations of the «morality» or made arrests with charges of «obscene acts» or «indecency». The agents arrested those who had no identity documents or were dressed in an “equivocal” manner.

However, it happened on that occasion that the patrons rebelled. The spark that triggered the reaction is shrouded in legend, a chapter of which says it was Sylvia Rivera, after being threatened with a truncheon, who launched a bottle against the agents. An argument arose which became a fight until the “troublemakers” were arrested.

The police, however, was unable to take them to the police station because on leaving they found themselves facing a hostile crowd. According to the chronicles, the patrons of the surrounding bars, passersby and onlookers formed a human barrier of almost 2000 people. Police patrols arrived on the scene. This resulted in other scuffles that forced the agents to fall back into the Stonewall. Some gays were heavily beaten by the police as the motion swelled, slogans and bottles were thrown against the law enforcement agencies, which became increasingly numerous.
A real riot after which the toll was 13 arrests, 4 injured policemen, an unknown number of injured protesters.*

This picture is my personal tribute to the Pride…. because Love is Love.

*Thank you to Marco Perisse for GQ Italia (1st June 2020)
https://www.gqitalia.it/news/article/perche-giugno-mese-pride