You only gave us rights because we gave you riots: thoughts on Pride

[typographer]

I've had three partially-written blog posts about Pride sitting here in the queue for a few weeks, but kept changing my mind about which direction I wanted to go with it. Then over the last few days I've seen several more iterations of a question that drives me crazy, and some related stuff appeared on a couple of my usual news sits, which made the three ideas I had coalesce into one. First: never forget that the first Pride was a riot. And it wasn't just one riot...

(The rest of this long historical and opinionated post is at FontFolly.Net.)

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