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Seen as the birth of the LGBT civil rights movement though the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, spawned by police harassment of trans women in the Tenderloin, happened three years earlier in 1966 Stonewall's anniversary is still marked by major Pride celebrations in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and other cities on the last weekend in June. The night's rioting, which included a lot of thrown beer bottles and was arguably motivated, in part, by the rioters' grief at the death of Judy Garland (her funeral had occurred earlier that day) led to three days of riots and tensions with police throughout the Village.
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This all of course began with an uprising of homos, drag queens, and trans people who fought back against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969.
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That same weekend in New York City, there was the first large Pride-like march dubbed the Christopher Street Liberation Day March. The inaugural event in San Francisco was a small 20- to 30-person march of "hair faeries" followed by a "gay-in" in Golden Gate Park in the summer of 1970, commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The thing we call the Gay Pride Parade was, once upon a time, called the Gay Freedom Day Parade a better name, if you ask us, because at this point gay folks are pretty proud enough, but not always completely free. Given that rights and recognition for transgendered people are truly the final frontier in the civil rights fight, the 10th Annual Trans March this evening should be viewed as the most important event of the weekend, politically. Beginning today, the city's LGBT community will begin three days of public events that are widely seen as one big party, but which really have their roots in protest and should still be seen as such.