Sao Paulo’s is bigger. San Francisco’s is more raucous. Moscow’s is braver. Tel Aviv’s is newer. But no Pride Parade matches New York City’s, because this is where it all began.Forty years ago, a group of patrons at a dive bar in Greenwich Village were interrupted by a police raid. This was nothing out of the ordinary; gay bars were routinely by the police. Only this time, the people in the Stonewall Inn fought back. It had happened before: There were riots when police closed a bar in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, both earlier in the ’60s.
What made this one different was not only the intensity in the politically charged atmosphere of the Village during that long, hot summer of 1969, an anti-police riot was something that everyone could participate in but the duration (nearly a week) and the aftermath. (keep reading)
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