“We were enraged because, in a sense, 2,000 years of repression built up in us. “That night in June of 1969, we felt rage at the police,” Segal told ET’s Denny Directo, as Pride has become a stark reminder that these modern-day celebrations once started as a protest. Johnson picked up the first brick thrown in rage, kicking off the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Mark Segal was one of the many LGBTQ people outside Stonewall Inn, where a stand was being taken against the latest police raid of one of the community’s few safe spaces to gather in New York City.