The Gay Pride Parade, which began in the USA, has become the largest and most popular LGBTQ event in the UK, attracting thousands of people to these parades each year.
The Pride Parade, one of the most popular ways for the LGBTQ community to make their voices heard. June and July are regarded as Gay Pride Month each year by gay people around the world and are celebrated in large numbers during these months.
From the late 1950s onwards, the gay community suffered severe opposition and discrimination in society. And psychoanalysts even defined homosexuality as a mental illness and banned restaurants and bars from serving alcohol to homosexuals in New York State. As these injustices grew, the LGBTQ community launched a series of protest movements to fight for their rights.
1969 saw the culmination of the conflict between the LGBTQ community and society with the landmark event in the history of LGBTQ events, the Stonewall Riots.
Late in the evening of 27 June 1969, several police officers entered a gay bar called Stonewall to check it out and remove gay customers as usual. The long-standing conflict finally erupted, and a fight broke out between the 400 or so homosexuals present and the police, which spiralled out of control and eventually subsided early the next morning.
In the aftermath of this incident, more gay people came forward and became more active in fighting for their right to exist, and in 1970 the first gay rights movement in history took place in New York and then spread around the world.
This is a video about the Stonewall incident:
The meaning of Pride Parade is to express the intentional position of the individual on an equal footing. On the surface, the Pride Parade was an affirmative action march in support of LGBTQ people, where the LGBTQ community unleashed their self-nature and expressed their strong opposition to discrimination against gay people. However, on a deeper level, there were also a significant number of participants who were not homosexuals, but rather people who supported equality for all. The event not only helped homosexuals to see themselves and gain self-respect, but also raised public awareness of the equality of true love, regardless of borders, age or gender. Every summer since then, they have proudly walked the streets, announcing to the world that we too have equal rights and that every love deserves to be respected.
Author: Penny Peng
Reviewed & Revised & Published & Typeset by Lyn Liu