Pride, as relevant in Ireland today as during Stonewall

Paul McAndrew
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:13:43 +0000
LGBT, National, Newspaper, Analysis, Paul McAndrew

The re will be celebrations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT)  Pride across Ireland this summer, including Cork's Pride Parade on June 5th and Dublin's Parade on June 26th. The original Pride marches were held to commemorate the Stonewall riots in New York which began on June 28, 1969, and which were led mainly by working class Black and Puerto Rican trans people, butch dykes and drag queens sick of being beaten up and arrested by the police. The following year, in commemoration of the riots, the Gay Liberation Front organised a march from Greenwich Village to Central Park. Almost 10,000 women and men attended the march. Today, many major cities all over the world hold LGBT/Queer Pride Marches on the last Sunday of June in honour of Stonewall.