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“The guy pulled a knife trying to rob me of my bag. So I put him on the ground.”

“This year we are experiencing this beautiful intersection of Black Lives Matter and Pride and I genuinely think it’s changing the world.”

A psychiatrist said that it was risky to put 27-year-old trans inmate Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco into a cell on her own. Guards did it anyway.

LGBTQ equality has transformed the country, but queer and trans people of color still need representation.

“It was horrifying for the family to see this footage,” said David Shanies, the lawyer representing the inmate’s family. “They were completely unprepared for what they saw. They all broke into hysterical crying.”

“It’s insulting to see a generation behave like this when our elders had to survive an epidemic to fight for our rights,” one witness told LGBTQ Nation.

“We’ve come so far in the LGBTQ community,” Muñoz said. “How dare anyone try and push us back. No. And so I will stand up, and I will be that guy who’s going to get scrappy.”

50 years later, what should have been recognized as a Guinness world record at the first Pride parade reminds us of the powerful act of being out.

Pride always looks best in pink.

Police arrested the CNN contributor without warning when he was taking pictures of a protest and held him for hours.