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Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Pride at 50: From Stonewall to Today

Posted by: Neely Tucker

May 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of annual LGBTQ+ Pride traditions. The first Pride march was in New York on June 28, 1970, on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. The Library collections show how the march was planned and why activists felt so strongly that it should exist.