As Apple Inc.’s CEO Tim Cook said, “You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.” This month Small Business Development Corporation of Orange County celebrates our LGBTQ+ community and the advances its members have achieved through countless courageous decisions that launched ripples and waves of change. Justice and equality comes at a cost and we recognize during Pride Month the enormous sacrifices so many have made and continue to make since that pivotal moment marked by the Stonewall Uprising in June 1969. We stand in unity with you.