In the early morning of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village became one of those hallowed grounds in the history of popular struggle. It’s where New York’s queer community finally had enough and fought back. Decades of harassment, abuse, assault, and arrest by the NYPD laid the kindling, and that night at Stonewall struck the match that became the Pride movement. That night was not the first response to State-sanctioned persecution of the LGBTQ communities, but it was the one that turned the tide and ushered in a new beginning for the gay rights movement.

Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, the FBI and several police departments kept lists of known homosexuals and their friends, and even places they frequented, and the U.S. Post Office kept a list of addresses of people who received mail of a suspected homosexual nature. In some cities, merely existing in public while dressing or acting in a way that conflicted with your gender assigned at birth was enough to get you arrested.

Some people never learned how to deal with being uncomfortable, and because of this, they do everything they can to remove whatever makes them uncomfortable—even if that discomfort comes from another person just trying to live their life. Pride is for the LGBTQ community, for celebrating living their truth and being authentic in a hostile world. If that makes you uncomfortable, that’s a you problem, and you should deal with it on your own time. Or, you can show up at Pride events with your Bible quotes—as some inevitably do every year—and let everyone know that you hate joy.