But anyways, seriously, when I think about why we celebrate Pride, being on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots and recognizing that that very violent set of events set upon a course of what we recognize as sort of The Stonewall riots [are recognized as the start of] the modern gay civil rights movement. LGBTQ plus civil rights movement, but we trace its origins to that. Not that there weren't things before Stonewall, as the documentary reminds us, that were very powerful, but I … (05:05–05:22)
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Asserts that the Stonewall riots are recognized as the beginning of the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.
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