EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.
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We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.
It’s Pride month, so here’s a look at the first Pride marches in different countries.
(The New York Times, approx 12 mins reading time)
As a marshal, I especially had to know how to react and control the marchers if we were attacked. When we reached 23rd Street, I climbed up a pole, looked back and saw a crowd stretch all the way to Christopher Street. Eventually we made it to Central Park, just like we had promised — and us activists transformed a movement from a few ragtag militants to thousand strong. As my friend Jerry Hoose used to say about that year, “we went from the shadows to sunlight.”
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