march of the community itself.”It was a protest, not a party. The march unapologetically highlighted issues of racism, police violence, and the obscene amount of money spent on militarized police, and a military which polices the world.
In so doing, participants will be honoring the rich, but largely forgotten history of the Stonewall Rebellion and the movement that followed it.Like today’s #blacklivesmatter movement with its demand to defund the police, the early, post-Stonewall LGBTQ movement recognized that resources spent on repression deprived communities of needed resources.
As such and in solidarity with peoples abroad, the movement organized into chapters known as the “Gay Liberation Front,” named after the National Liberation Front.