Though this was, in part, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, it was also an effort to link Pride back to its history, which began with Black, transgender women leading the fight at Compton’s Cafeteria riot, and draw parallels with today’s Black Lives Matter movement. Youth advocate Iván Massel believes people should be “cultivating, nurturing and fostering” young people to stand up for what they believe in, as they have the potential to shift the conversation.  “There were older people who talked about Black lives mattering, but it took us younger folks saying ‘Black trans lives matter, Black homeless lives matter, Black mental health matters, disabled Black lives matter,’” Massel said. I’m not going to wish you a happy Pride, because there’s nothing happy about it this year,” Donna Personna, 72-year-old activist and last year’s grand marshal of Pride, said to the crowd. “This year, Pride is a Riot” ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 📝 Article by Olivia Wynkoop...