June is pride month, a time to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and Trasngender Community and their struggle for equal rights. Organizers chose june as pride month to honor the 1969 stonewall riots in new york city. They were a series of uprisings by the Gay Community against police raids of the stonewall inn, a popular gay bar in greenwich village. The riots are considered the start of the modern gay rights movement. President trump marked pride month this year with a tweet celebrating lgbt rights, becoming the first republican president to acknowledge pride month. But just a month earlier his administration had effectively banned transgendered people from the military. Stacey long simmons is the director of advocacy and action at the national Lgbtq Task Force. Its so nice to have you with us. Stacey thank you, so nice to be here. Soledad thank you. Those two things are in complete contradiction so assess for me i pride month is kind of a low bar but assess for me how you would s
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