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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.

GAY PRI

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. 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“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat on September 20, 2011 and gays and lbians may openly serve the ary. 1948 Aled Ksey publish “Sexual Behavr the Human Male”, revealg to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.

160 GAY HISTORY TRIVIA QUTNS, ANSWERS, AND FUN FACTS

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.

10 GAY PRI HISTORY FACTS EVERYONE SHOULD HEAR ABOUT

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.

14 ESSENTIAL FACTS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI

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.

5 INTERTG FACTS ABOUT GAY PRI

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.