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Every June, rainbow flags appear in windows, businesses hang banners of support, and communities gather to celebrate Pride. For many, Pride is a festival. For others, it is a protest. In truth, it has always been both. Pride exists because LGBTQIA+ people refused to disappear. It exists because generations before us fought for the right to live openly, love authentically, and build community in a world that often told them they did not belong. At the LGBT Equality Alliance of

This year’s Love Is Love Gala was rooted in a simple idea—one that echoes Dan Savage’s reminder that when things feel heavy, when the world asks us to shrink or disappear, we cry, we rage… and then we dance, because it is the dance we are fighting for. And that is exactly what our community did.

Black LGBTQIA+ history is often presented as a sidebar — a short list of influential figures, a cultural reference, or a commemorative moment attached to broader movement timelines. That framing is incomplete. It overlooks the reality that Black queer and trans communities have helped shape the political frameworks, organizing strategies, and systems of care that made LGBTQIA+ rights movements possible in the first place. This history is not about later inclusion. It is about