A 2012 analysis by the National Inmate Survey, found that lesbian, gay, or bisexual people were incarcerated at a rate of 1,882 per 100,000, or three times higher than the heterosexual U.S. LGBTQ people are also overrepresented in rates of incarceration and prison victimization, the think tank added. However, even with the advances that the movement has made, the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, said in a report in June 2020 that gays are still “disproportionately harmed” by the criminal justice system, along with Blacks and immigrants.
The f irst gay pride parade took place in June 1970, one year after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan led to rioting – an event generally considered one of the most pivotal moments of the gay rights movement.