Gay Pri | History, Flag, & Facts | Branni

Contents:

• GAY FUN FACTS
• GAY PRI
• 160 GAY HISTORY TRIVIA QUTNS, ANSWERS, AND FUN FACTS
• 10 GAY PRI HISTORY FACTS EVERYONE SHOULD HEAR ABOUT
• 14 ESSENTIAL FACTS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI
• 5 INTERTG FACTS ABOUT GAY PRI

GAY FUN FACTS

Sce 1970, the LGBTQ muny has marked June as Pri Month—a time to celebrate what means to be lbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgenr while mandg equaly and liberatn om cis and heteronormative nstrats. Pri paras and march, which are tradnally held on the last weekend June, memorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, a watershed moment LGBTQ history when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan that is now a natnal monument, fought back agast a police year marks the 52nd anniversary of the first gay Pri march, which was held on the first anniversary of the Stonewall rts.

In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found the Society for Human Rights Chigo; was the first group to mpaign for gay rights the Uned Stat. While the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March New York Cy is wily nsired to be the first Pri para, actually occurred one day after Chigo held s first march, which technilly mak Chigo the birthplace of the first Pri para may have been Chigo, the mantle of “Mother of Pri” belongs to a lifelong New Yorker: Brenda Howard. Howard passed away gay rights groups, such as the Mattache Society, foced heavily on rpectabily and nventn, as the drs for their "annual remrs" monstrated (women drs; men jackets and ti).

”New York Cy Lights Up In Support Of The 50th Anniversary Of The First Gay Pri March / Alexi Rosenfeld/GettyImagThe rabow flag, now a ubiquo symbol of the LGBTQ muny, first appeared the 1970s.

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Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francis cy supervisor, tasked artist/activist Gilbert Baker wh creatg a symbol for the gay muny to e place of the pk triangle, which Nazi Germany forced gay men to wear ncentratn mps. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat on September 20, 2011 and gays and lbians may openly serve the ary.

1948 Aled Ksey publish “Sexual Behavr the Human Male”, revealg to the public that homosexualy is far more wispread than was monly believed. Six years after Caffe Co opens, hosts the first gay plays, “The Madns of Lady Bright, by Lanford Wilson, and The Hnted Host, by Robert Patrick. 1978 John Briggs drops out of the California ernor’s race, but receiv support for Proposn 6, also known as the Briggs Iniative, a proposal to fire any teacher or school employee who publicly supports gay rights.

1980 At the 1980 Democratic Natnal Conventn held at New York Cy’s Madison Square Garn, Democrats took a stance supportg gay rights, addg the followg to their plank: “All groups mt be protected om discrimatn based on race, lor, relign, natnal orig, language, age, sex or sexual orientatn. The first Gay Rights Organizatn was the Society for Human Rights, started 1924 by Henry Gerber ChigoThe first Lbian Rights Organizatn was the Dghters of Bilis, stared 1955 San Francis. Illois beme the first state to crimalize homosexualy by repealg sodomy laws 1961Police raid the Stonewall Inn 1969, promptg a massive seri of monstratns that beme the morn gay rights 1969, The Advote adopted s current name and began publitn as the olst ntug LGBTQ publitn the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn fally remov homosexualy om ’s list of mental disorrs 1973 a heavily ntted vote.

160 GAY HISTORY TRIVIA QUTNS, ANSWERS, AND FUN FACTS

Wisns beme the first state to outlaw discrimatn based on sexual orientatn 1993, Clton signs the disastro “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that only allows “closeted” homosexuals the 1996, Clton triangulat wh Republins to pass the Defense of Marriage, which is subsequently stck down many years DeGener me out Time Magaze and ma the world a ltle better first legal same-sex marriag are rried out Massachetts 2004. The sign was to reprent gay and lbian diversy around the, don’t thk he jt wanted to make somethg pretty like rabows and lors are symbolic as follows:Red Stands for lifeOrange stands for healgYellow Stands for the sunGreen Stands for natureBlue stands for harmonyPurple stands for the soul.

Origally tend as a badge of shame, the pk triangle (often verted om s Nazi age) has been reclaimed as an ternatnal symbol of the gay rights movement. In 1971, after an NYC clerk announced he would be sug church that performed gay unns, LGBT activists threw an impromptu gay weddg his office. The Angels would roam the streets of predomately homosexual muni the middle of the night, reportg any crim, maly gay-bashg, to lol law enforcement.

Acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center survey of nearly 1, 200 LGBT adults, bisexuals are much ls likely than gay men and lbians to say that their sexual orientatn is an important part of who they are and are much more likely than gay men or lbians to be married, most wh the oppose sex. In the 1950s and 1960s, homosexualy was nsired a mental illns, and some LGBTQ+ people were still unrgog psdoscientific “nversn” practic om psychiatrists. That, upled wh the fact that homosexualy was crimalised most plac, meant that queer people were phed to the margs and ma to feel like their inty was somethg to be ashamed of.

10 GAY PRI HISTORY FACTS EVERYONE SHOULD HEAR ABOUT

Members of the Gay Liberatn Front prottg agast the Indtrial Relatns Bill to ll for an end to society’s opprsn of homosexuals, London, UK, 13th January 1971.

But that’s not the se everywhere – homosexualy is still crimalised numero untri all around the world, and queer people are neher accepted nor tolerated many other plac. Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty.

Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).

14 ESSENTIAL FACTS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI

Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore. As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march. The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e.

5 INTERTG FACTS ABOUT GAY PRI

” The succs of the CSLD March spired lol anizers across the Uned Stat and around the globe to start their own LGBT the 1973 CSLD march, transgenr activist Sylvia Rivera lled out transphobia an epic speech, provg that transgenr people have been part of our muny's activism an say for The Village Voice, Fred Sargeant reunted his experience at the CSLD March: "This was long before anyone had heard of a “Gay Pri March. Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month, we celebrate the proud legacy LGBT dividuals have woven to the fabric of our Natn, we honor those who have fought to perfect our Unn, and we ntue our work to build a society where every child grows up knowg that their untry supports them, is proud of them, and has a place for them exactly as they are.