I am a gay man who was born two summers after The Stonewall Riots and I have lived my entire life through the span of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. On this 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and as we celebrate World Pride here where it all began in my home of New York City, I have been thinking about all the progress the LGBTQ community has made in the past half century. I have seen the pendulum of public perception of LGBTQ folks swing both ways in my lifetime and I can honestly say that the progress we’ve made has been for two essential reasons; because we never stopped protesting, marching and fighting for our rights, and because our we had straight, non-LGBTQ allies who got in the fight with us. Allies make all the difference to oppressed individuals. When any group of individuals are being singled out,
June 29, 2019
