Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• TODAY IS A GAY DAY!
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY DAYGAY DAY
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• GAY
• WHEN IS NATNAL GAY DAY?
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY PRI

TODAY IS A GAY DAY!

Currently the Have A Gay Day Food Pantry is open on Sundays om 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm.

Have A Gay Day is lnchg a book seri sharg stori by the muny about their experienc wh fah. 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.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAY DAYGAY DAY

Pri Month had humble begngs: It ially began as Gay Pri Day, observed annually on the last Sunday June. 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? Along wh readg LGBTQ-spired books or postg a meangful Pri Month quote on Instagram, you n jo any of the natnwi celebratns held throughout the month of of the largt Pri events occurs New York Cy, the birthplace of morn gay rights movement.

Ci hostg Pri Month events this year:Baltimore: June 17 - 25, 2023Chigo: Pri Ft, June 17 - 18, 2023; Pri Para, June 25 Denver: June 24 - 25, 2023Detro: June 10 - 11, 2023Key Wt: June 7 - 11, 2023Los Angel: Var events throughout JuneNashville: June 24 - 25, 2023New Orleans: June 9 - 11, 2023Portland: June 15 - 16, 2023Provcetown, RI: June 2 - 4, 2023San Francis: June 24 - 25, 2023Seattle: June 25, 2023LGTBQ Pri Month rourcTo learn more about Pri Month or fd addnal ways to get volved, check out the followg rourc:GLAAD, a non-ernment agency found to promote LGBTQ acceptance along wh intifyg and preventg discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer, a work of stunts, fai and tn advot workg to facilate LGBTQ safety and support Equaly Feratn is a LGBTQ advocy group workg to help advance the rights of LGBTQ Natnal LGBTQ Task Force, an advocy group dited to advancg eedom, jtice and equaly for LGBTQ Library of Congrs, for history on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Pri Anti-Defamatn League, an anti-hate anizatn dited to fightg bias, extremism, discrimatn or hate. 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. 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. 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.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

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. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month is currently celebrated each year the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan.

The Stonewall Uprisg was a tippg pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat. In the Uned Stat the last Sunday June was ially celebrated as "Gay Pri Day, " but the actual day was flexible.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

The purpose of the memorative month is to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals have had on history lolly, natnally, and ternatnally. Gay Pri Week and March, was meant to give the muny a chance to gather together to "...

Memorate the Christopher Street Uprisgs of last summer which thoands of homosexuals went to the streets to monstrate agast centuri of abe...

Om ernment hostily to employment and hog discrimatn, Mafia ntrol of Gay bars, and anti-Homosexual laws" (Christopher Street Liberatn Day Commtee Fliers, Frankl Kameny Papers).

GAY

The ncept behd the ial Pri march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO), who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn (1965-1969) known as the "Remr Day Pickets, " at Inpennce Hall Philalphia. At the ERCHO Conference November 1969, the 13 homophile anizatns attendance voted to pass a rolutn to anize a natnal annual monstratn, to be lled Christopher Street Liberatn Day.

As members of the Mattache Society of Washgton, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vcenz participated the discsn, planng, and promotn of the first Pri along wh activists New York Cy and other homophile groups belongg to ERCHO. Watch documentary footage of the first Pri march, "Gay and Proud, " a documentary by activist Lilli Vcenz:.

WHEN IS NATNAL GAY DAY?

The Law Library of Congrs has piled guis to memorative observatns, cludg a prehensive ventory of the Public Laws, Printial Proclamatns and ngrsnal rolutns related to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr and Queer Pri Month. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

GAY PRI

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”.

However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label.

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.