Pride Month, typically marked with parades and events celebrating the LGBTQ community as a whole, it’s important to remember that Pride started off as a protest.
And for Janet Mock, the Emmy-nominated producer behind and one of ET’s LGBTQ entertainers of the year, that’s something that hasn't escaped her mind, especially amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter rallies and demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality all across the country.“For me at least, there’s never been a sense of celebrating Pride without really thinking about our foremothers and our forefathers who were there that night,” she tells Denny Directo for the ET special,, referring to the 1969 Stonewall riots that were a result of ongoing police raids of New.