Gay Days returns to Walt Disney World after 2-year hiat

Contents:

• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
• REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
• DISNEYLAND PRI MONTH & GAYDAYS: FOOD GUI, MERCH, EVENTS
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023

The holiday honors the 1969 Stonewall Getty ImagA banner readg “We Are Everywhere” at a Gay Pri march on Fifth Avenue New York Cy, USA, July 1979.

On June 28, 1969, when police officers raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street, Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Acrdg to History, was mon at the time for police to raid bars whout liquor licens — which, not cintally, were oftentim gay bars, as New York’s liquor thory tend to reject liquor license applitns om gay bars, as per NYCdata.

REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS

The Stonewall Uprisg helped lnch the gay rights people see the Stonewall Rts and protts as the event that lnched the gay rights movement. For the reasons, activists see Pri as a prott, not a Getty ImagAn archival photo of an LGBT para gog through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.

Acrdg to the Library of Congrs, origal fliers promotg the very first Pri March stated that the march aimed to "memorate the Christopher Street Uprisgs of last summer which thoands of homosexuals went to the streets to monstrate agast centuri of abe... On 25th Street and 5th Avenue Manhattan to beg the fd out when your cy’s Pri ftivi are this year, check out IGLTA’s Internatnal LGBTQ+/Gay Pri Calendar.

DISNEYLAND PRI MONTH & GAYDAYS: FOOD GUI, MERCH, EVENTS

Reprentativ of the Buffalo Radil Lbians take part an LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971. 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. 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.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

More than 50 years after the famo Stonewall rts, the only Pri Month tradn more predictable than big cy paras June are the perennial plats about the “modifitn” of the gay rights movement. The days, the month often featur rporatns and nsumer brands participatg the celebratns, wh bright rabow packagg and gay-themed ems for sale. Claimg that a gay person needs to vote for a certa party or suate themselv on a certa pot of the iologil spectm is — to e some of today’s pop psychology terms — gatekeepg and gaslightg.

Crics often sist that rporatns’ mment to gay pri is shallow and self-servg, or that rabow-themed merchandise and advertisg durg June end up tokenizg rather than celebratg the muny. Though there are historil nnectns between the gay rights movement and opposg palism, ’s a mistake for the LGBTQ muny today to embrace an anti-rporate attu. The sire to associate gay inty wh a particular part of the polil spectm don’t reflect the muny’s diversy and n actively alienate people who are not part of that polil group — at the expense of the terts of the muny as a whole.

What was origally known as the “gay liberatn” movement was born out of a wi-rangg cultural ferment on the left the 1960s and early 1970s that also gave rise to the women’s liberatn, anti-war and Black power movements, a cross-pollatn among activists groups scribed Cornell Universy’s archive on the history of gay activism. Given this background, and aid by the fact that their nservative antagonists were generally favor of ee-market enomic polici, gay rights activists durg the 1970s were associated wh a hostily toward palism, markets and rporatns.

GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT

Gay historian Mart Duberman, an activist himself, readily adms that “The gay left — like every other kd of left this untry — has rarely reprented more than a small mory.