In Progress

Since it started in New York City in 1969, following the so-called Stonewall Rebellion, the Gay Pride March has paraded around the world in spaces and among bodies that cling to both heterosexual and homophobic desires. What took place on that momentous night of June 27, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn was inevitable. Gays trooped to the bar that night to make a customary toast to mark the death of gay icon Judy Garland (Fredericks, n.d.). Predictably, the police decided to flex their masculine presence against the homosexual customers. After stating their “usual homophobic comments,” the police started throwing out the customers (Batie, n.d.). Such police action was an attempt to protect the city from homosexual “encroachment” as much as the gays’ protests and dissents were attempts to thwart  homophobic elements from entering their space. Stonewall Inn, after all, was a gay bar.