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This year’s celebration of Pride for LGBT+ people will be like no other. After half a century of annual Pride marches, most mass gatherings around the world have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. But in a sense, after 50 years, Pride has returned to its roots.
The first Pride was a protest against excessive policing of the LGBT+ community around the Stonewall Inn in Lower Manhattan. People of colour, notably trans women, played a key role in this original episode of resistance. This year, LGBT+ people from New York and London to Manila have marked Pride with protests, rather than parties, often joining the Black Lives Matter demonstrations. This Pride month also saw a landmark victory at the US Supreme Court, which ruled in June that transgender, lesbian and gay people are protected by the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s ban on discrimination on the basis of “sex”.