Pri Month honors lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people—and the history, culture, and ntributns of the people and their muni.
Contents:
- GAY PRI
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
GAY PRI
* gay day pride month *
Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians. In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians.
Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy. By the time the Stonewall Rts end on July 2, 1969, the gay rights movement went om beg a ge issue largely ignored by policians and the media to ont-page news Gay Pri ParaOne year later, durg the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, activists New York Cy marched through the streets of Manhattan memoratn of the uprisg. The march, anized by the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Umbrella Commtee, was named the Christopher Street Liberatn Day time, that celebratn me to be simply known as the Gay Pri Para.
March and paras also took place that June Chigo, Los Angel and San the years, gay pri events have spread om large ci to smaller towns and villag worldwi—even plac where reprsn and vlence agast gays and lbians are monplace.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
The atmosphere at the events n range om r, rnivalque celebratns to strint polil prott to solemn memorials for those lost to AIDS or homophobic June 2000, Print Bill Clton officially signated June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month, regnn of the Stonewall Rts and gay activism throughout the years.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
A more-clive name was chosen 2009 by Print Barack Obama: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri origs of Gay Pri Month were also honored by Obama when, 2016, he created the Stonewall Natnal Monument, a 7.
7-acre around the Stonewall Inn where the morn gay rights movement, Gay Pri paras many ci are enormo celebratns: The events Sao Plo, Sydney, New York Cy, Madrid, Taipei and Toronto routely attract up to 5 ln Pri Month has grown populary across the globe, cricism of the events has grown, too. Many early anizers now cry the mercial fluence and rporate nature of Pri paras—pecially when those rporatns make donatns to policians who vote agast gay, lbian and transgenr Pri events are nohels seen as val protts agast reprsn and isolatn plac such as Serbia, Turkey and Rsia, where Pri paras have been met wh antigay vlence.
The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns. Pri Month is observed June to honor the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, a touchstone event LGBTQ the late 1960s, beg openly gay was largely prohibed most plac. New York, particular, had a le that the simple prence of someone gay or genrqueer unted as disorrly nduct, effectively outlawg gay June 28, 1969, patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a popular bar wh a diverse LGBTQ clientele, stood their ground after police raid the tablishment.
The rultg clash led to days of rts and protts, known as the Stonewall year later, on the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, thoands of people flood the streets of Manhattan the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March, regard as the first gay pri event ever. As awarens creased, more activi and events were planned throughout the month and eventually, evolved to the month-long observance, aptly named Pri 1999, Print Bill Clton officially clared June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month, settg asi the month as a time to regnize the LGBTQ muny’s achievements and support the is the symbol of Pri?