Pride Month Begins in RI

June is LGBTQQI Pride Month nationwide and Providence is no exception.  On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 5:30 pm, Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza will participate in a Rainbow Flag Raising ceremony at City Hall to officially mark the beginning of Pride Month in the Ocean State.  Parties interested can click here for more information.

Celebrations of LGBTQQI Pride date back to 1970 in New York City, where a group of activists held a march to commemorate the one year anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a multi-evening series of confrontations between New York Police and disenfranchised youths.