The first Pride marches were held in 1970, a year after the Stonewall riots in New York City. Over the past 50 years, Pride has turned from a solemn response to police brutality and discrimination against the LGBTQ community into a celebration of what it means to be gay.
Rights for the LGBTQ community in the United States have come a long way – but that is not the case everywhere in the world.
People’s rights are still thwarted by anti-LGBTQ governments, and in countries like Iran, Myanmar and Uganda, homosexuality is still illegal.
We’ve looked at 10 years of Pride marching around the world to remind ourselves that, for many people, Pride is still a riot.
