Stonewall Inn

Cities around the world hosted Pride marches in recent weeks, 50 years after the Stonewall Riots in Manhattan spearheaded the LGBTQ+ rights movement. In the summer of 1979, patrons at the Stonewall Inn retaliated after a police raid on the bar. The following year, the first Pride march was held, both in celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and in protest at the discrimination endured.

On 28 June 1969, LGBTQ+ patrons at the Stonewall Inn in New York City rebelled against raids by the police. That night spearheaded the gay liberation movement which led to the first Pride parades in some US cities in the summer of 1970. The movement grew and gradually became global. According to organisers, London's 2018 Pride parade was attended by over a million people.