Yes, I am that pumped up about it that I will throw around the f word in the title if I feel like it. Yes I am aware that it is only February, but hey got get the word out now! June will be here before you know it! Have you ever wonder how all this magnificent came about. I did, so as usual I Googled it, but Google only wanted to tell me all the fabulous places and locations where a pride day celebration and/or march will be held. It made me wish I was Flash Gordon so I could go and visit all of them. So I turned to the next best thing for a history lesson. Yes, I am speaking of Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. Oh, Wikipedia how I can count on you to ramble on and on with information that is still questionable at times. Ok, So here is the lowdown; early on the morning of Saturday, 28 June 1969 members of the gay community, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, rioted following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a known gay bar, in Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City. The Stonewall riots are considered to be the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, as it was the first time in modern history that a significant body of LGBT people resisted arrest. It makes the heart swell with pride that throughout history people from all walks of life with nothing in common except for maybe the color of their skin, their gender, or their sexual orientation, are willing to stand up for themselves. Stand up and say enough is enough we are all people who have the right to love and the pursuit of happiness. I mean wasn’t that the whole reason the United States of America is what it is today.
