Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world.
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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. 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. History of Pri MonthOn a hot summer’s night New York on June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club Greenwich Village, which rulted bar patrons, staff, and neighborhood rints rtg onto Christopher Street outsi. Speakg of the rabow flag, was actually gay polician Harvey Milk who asked a talented signer iend, Gilbert Baker, to sign an all-enpassg symbol to take to San Francis’s Pri March 1978.