This Day June: Pman, Gayle E., Lten, Kristyna: 9781433816598: Books

Contents:

• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• GAY DAYS 2023 AT DISNEYLAND RORT CONFIRMED, DAT REVEALED - INSI THE MAGIC
• GAY PRI
• GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH

LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN

© Lynn Watson/ Colorful upliftg paras wh floats and celebri, joyo ftivals, workshops, piics, and parti are among the prcipal ponents of LGBTQ Pri Month, also lled Gay Pri, which is celebrated June the Uned Stat and elsewhere around the world. Pri Month memorat years of stggle for civil rights and the ongog pursu of equal jtice unr the law for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny, as well as the acplishments of LGBTQ dividuals. For the four years prr to the Stonewall rts, activists Philalphia had staged protts outsi Inpennce Hall on July 4 as “Annual Remrs” that gays and lbians were beg nied basic rights of cizenship.

At the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns Philalphia on November 2, 1969, the ia of a march rponse to the Stonewall events was proposed. Although “gay power” had been proposed as the slogan for the march, was argued that the movement had yet to be polilly empowered but that s members felt great pri their sexual inty. Th, was cid that the march’s theme would be “gay pri.

GAY DAYS 2023 AT DISNEYLAND RORT CONFIRMED, DAT REVEALED - INSI THE MAGIC

On the day of the New York march, “the world’s first permted para advotg for gay rights” was staged on Hollywood Boulevard Los Angel and a “Gay In” was held Goln Gate Park San Francis.

Thereafter, Gay Pri, or LGBTQ Pri, generally me to be celebrated the Uned Stat on the last Sunday June (though there were many exceptns) as somber march evolved to joyo celebratns. Ernment when Print Bill Clton clared June 1999 “Gay and Lbian Pri Month, ” Print Barack Obama proclaimed June to be “LGBT Pri Month, ” and Print Joe Bin further expand the observance to “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pri Month.

GAY PRI

The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement.

LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer.

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi. New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days. 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.

GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH

A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held.

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. Baker, a proment gay rights activist, gave a nod to the strip of the Amerin flag but drew spiratn om the rabow to reflect the many groups wh the gay muny. Durg a Whe Hoe briefg on May 31, Print Joe Bin proclaimed June 2022 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex Pri Month.

It go back to June 28, 1969, when police raid a gay club lled the Stonewall Inn New York. Siar raids on gay-iendly bs had been occurrg for s, but Stonewall was one of the first tim when the patrons fought back. A diverse crowd of lbians, gay men and transgenr women, many of whom were people of lor, clashed wh the police, threw bottl and refed to be timidated.