They read about us in their newspapers…We’re not invisible anymore.
They know who we are,” said Mark Segal, 68, who was at the riots outside the Stonewall Inn in 1969. Just a year after the riots in June 1970, New York staged its first ever Gay Pride parade celebrating the diversity of the LGBT community, an event that would spread to other cities and eventually around the world, even though homosexuality remains banned and punished in a number of countries. The six-day festival will feature concerts, exhibitions, movie screenings, theatre shows and workshops as the city pays homage to those who took part in the 1969 Stonewall riots, a week-long protest against the police’s constant harassment of the New York gay community at the time.
