Pride Month began in June 1969 as a civil rights movement. Demonstrators took to the streets to protest a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

A year later, marchers in Chicago turned out to mark the anniversary of the raid, and over time Gay Pride became a national movement.

The goal was to stop the shaming against gay and lesbian people, and promote tolerance and mutual respect. Those values are as American as apple pie, and everyone can celebrate them.

But aggressive activists and far-left politicians are turning some Pride events into hateful attacks.