Kentucky.com – By Mary Meehan
Lexington’s Pride Festival returns to downtown for a second year, and amid the more than 50 booths, food vendors and standard festival fare like a Velcro wall, there will be a message.
The festival will highlight the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. It was June 27, 1969, when New York police raided a popular Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn. Such raids where common, said Jeff Jones, author of Hidden Histories, Proud Communities: Multiple Narratives in the Queer Geographies of Lexington.