The parade eventually stretched 15 city blocks and encompassed thousands of supporters.Īctivists in other cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago, organized Pride celebrations that same year, celebrations that would continue through today.
Several hundred people started marching up 6th Avenue, toward Central Park. Gay activists in New York organized the Christopher Street Liberation March to cap off the city’s first Pride Week. On June 28, 1970, on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the first Pride parade set off from Stonewall. We’re going to create a community where you wouldn’t allow us to have community,’” Segal said. “And it was that night that we said to the police, ‘We are taking our street back. And the New York City Police Department that night, when they violently came into Stonewall and beat people up against the wall and extorted money from people, got us angry,” Segal continued. “We were enraged because, in a sense, 2,000 years of repression built up in us. “That night in June of 1969, we felt rage at the police,” Segal told ET’s Denny Directo, as Pride has become a stark reminder that these modern-day celebrations once started as a protest. Johnson picked up the first brick thrown in rage, kicking off the modern LGBTQ rights movement. We publish his material by permission.Mark Segal was one of the many LGBTQ people outside Stonewall Inn, where a stand was being taken against the latest police raid of one of the community’s few safe spaces to gather in New York City. By his grace we can unashamedly and graciously respond, “We must obey God rather than men.”Ĭameron Pollock serves as assistant pastor of youth and music at First Baptist Church of Lebanon, PA. By these truths our sovereign God guards our hearts and our minds in Christ Jesus. God has already reassured us he is not mocked. Surely if he is the Creator, as he claims to be, mockery and intimidation cannot threaten him. You can humbly proclaim what God has said and let him defend himself (and you!). We live in a world that worships and serves the creature rather than the Creator (Romans 1).īut, dear Christians, you need not give into mockery and shame. Today the world wants Christians to doubt God’s good command, just like the temptation of the first couple in the Garden. But peer pressure needs no argument to shift the heart. It cuts across the grain of humanity’s created design. Much of the bare logic of the LGBTQ+ movement makes no rational or natural sense. If Satan can weaken the mind and pressure the emotions, he knows he can get at our will. We are complex creatures, fashioned with a mind, emotions, and a will. Satan knows that the art of persuasion does not merely aim for the mind it rattles the heart. He had already successfully planted the seed of doubt in Eve’s mind, and with his mockery he launched his full-on frontal assault. What did Satan say in the Garden to Eve when she told him God’s command? “You will not surely die.” The Hebrew words literally read, “You will surely die- not!” More than that, we need to recognize mockery is one of Satan’s chief tactics in spiritual warfare.
It is a simple response we need to learn quickly to engage an increasingly secular culture.
I would like to suggest one biblical response, though I am sure we could come up with dozens more.
#Is june 1st gay pride day how to
This new tradition seems to be here to stay, and many conscientious Christians who hold to a biblical sexual ethic may wonder how to respond. It is June 1st, 2021, and my Google calendar tells me today is the first day of LGBTQ+ pride month.