Sunday’s Utah Pride Parade celebrated 50 years since New York City protestors — incensed by a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay club — held demonstrations that would help catalyze the nation’s LGBT rights movement.
For Kayla Walker, though, the day marked a more personal anniversary. It was exactly two years ago that, inspired by her first Utah Pride Festival, she decided to come out to her friends and family.
She’d been nervous about how her loved ones would respond, and she remembers hesitating before sharing a selfie from the festival on Facebook.
"But I was like, I'm done.