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“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.

His words in the aftermath of George W. Bush’s reelection are just as necessary today.

“I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life.” He wasn’t – and it was all caught on video.

“Regrettably the option to stay and even have a closing event has been taken from us during this crisis,” one #gay bar wrote while announcing its closing on Facebook.

“That’s the thing, people can issue an apology and people are never satisfied,” he says. But he never says “I’m sorry.”