No loudspeakers blaring Bollywood anthems. Halfway across the world in Kolkata a motley group will gather as well to mark another anniversary – 20 years of the first Pride March in India. This year, to mark 50 years of Stonewall, there will be World Pride in New York. And a giant LGBTQI (the alphabet soup keeps growing) march now takes over cities like Manhattan and San Francisco on the last Sunday of June every year. The Stonewall Riots kicked off a queer movement that refused to stay out of sight in a closet and shady bars. 50 years ago on 28-29 June 1999, a group of gays, angry with harassment and extortion, rioted during a police raid at Stonewall Inn in New York.
