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title: PRIDE — It Started With a Brick and the Brick Was Marsha's
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sdk_version: 5.34.2
app_file: app.py
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license: mit
short_description: Pay It No Mind.
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PRIDE feat. Marsha P. Johnson
Pay It No Mind.
An interactive history engine about Stonewall, the riot that became a movement, and the woman who threw the first brick.
What It Is
Walk through the Stonewall timeline — forward from the raid to the marches, backward from today to the moment everything changed. Every stop on the timeline tells you what happened, who was there, and who got the credit they deserved (and who didn't).
This isn't a summary. It's a walk through the night of June 28, 1969, and every night since.
Marsha P. Johnson
The P stands for "Pay It No Mind."
Black trans woman. Threw the first brick (or the first shot glass, depending on who you ask — she was there either way and she didn't flinch). Co-founded STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) with Sylvia Rivera. Fed homeless queer youth out of her own pocket. Marched, organized, performed, survived.
Found dead in the Hudson River in 1992. NYPD ruled it suicide. Nobody believed them. The case was reopened in 2012. Still unresolved.
Pride started with a riot and the riot started with Marsha. The parade exists because she threw something first.
The Timeline
- Before Stonewall — the raids, the laws, the Mattachine Society, the Sip-In, the world that made the riot inevitable
- June 28, 1969 — the raid on the Stonewall Inn, the crowd that didn't scatter, the brick, the nights that followed
- The Aftermath — Gay Liberation Front, STAR House, the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March (June 28, 1970)
- The Long Road — Harvey Milk, the AIDS crisis, ACT UP, Don't Ask Don't Tell, marriage equality, the names that got remembered and the names that got erased
- Today — where the fight is now, what's been won, what's under threat, and why Marsha still matters
The Stack
- Model: NVIDIA Nemotron Nano Omni with full historical fallback
- Framework: Gradio
- Sources: Stonewall National Museum archives, NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, "Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson" (2012 documentary), Martin Duberman's "Stonewall" (1993)
The Rule
Pride is not a brand. It's not a parade float with a bank logo on it. It's a brick through a window thrown by a Black trans woman who had nothing left to lose and everything to fight for.
This app exists so nobody forgets that.
Free dev tools at Hometree.
PRIDE — It Started With a Brick and the Brick Was Marsha's https://t.co/rwNWPISQ6E via @YouTube
— Kory Indahl (@Wayfindersix) June 13, 2026
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