Lichess Celebrates Pride Month
On the 28th June 1969, in the early hours of the morning, the New York City Police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. This single action galvanised the LGBT+ community for decades, and the ripples continue today. The ensuing riots were a pivotal moment in the fight for LGBT+ rights, and kickstarted a more visible and direct era of campaigning for those rights. A year later, the Stonewall riots were commemorated with the first gay pride march, and later became more recognisable as modern LGBT+ Pride events. Because of the events of 1969, every June, we celebrate the progress made by and for LGBT+ people, and consider how much further there is still to go until LGBT+ people have worldwide freedom to live their most authentic lives.
