Global Health Institute

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month. On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, an LGBT bar in Greenwich Village, New York. Patrons resisted arrest, escalating hostility and prompting the New York LGBT community to riot for days, protesting years of police harassment. The rebellion catalyzed the greater LGBT rights movement, establishing organizations like the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance. A year after the Stonewall riots, in June, the first LGBT Pride marches were held.

On June 12, 2018, I attended the NetSci Conference in Paris, France, and presented on my current GHI affiliated research titled, “Defining an Epidemiological Geography of the United States: Influenza as a Case Study” at the Integration of Empirical Data in Network Epidemiology Symposium.