  pride parades (also known as pride marches, pride events, and pride festivals) for the lgbt community are events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) culture and pride. the events also at times serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage. most pride events occur annually, and many take place around june to commemorate the stonewall riots, a pivotal moment in modern lgbt social movements. ==history==   early on the morning of saturday, june 28, 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons rioted following a police raid on the stonewall inn in the greenwich village neighborhood of new york city."the new york times",june 29, 1969 the stonewall inn was a gay bar which catered to an assortment of patrons, but which was popular with the most marginalized people in the gay community: transvestites, transgender people, effeminate young men, hustlers, and homeless youth. ==first pride march== on november 2, 1969, craig rodwell, his partner fred sargeant, ellen broidy, and linda rhodes proposed the first gay pride parade to be held in new york city by way of a resolution at the eastern regional conference of homophile organizations (ercho) meeting in philadelphia.sargeant, fred. "1970: a first-person account of the first gay pride march." the village voice. june 22, 2010. retrieved january 3, 2011. {{quote|that the annual reminder, in order to be more relevant, reach a greater number of people, and encompass the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged-that of our fundamental human rights-be moved both in time and location. we propose that a demonstration be held annually on the last saturday in june in new york city to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on christopher street and this demonstration be called christopher street liberation day. no dress or age regulations shall be made for this demonstration. we also propose that we contact homophile org
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