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Contents:
- GAY PRI
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
- ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
GAY PRI
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * gay month *
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.
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.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
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? 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.
ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’
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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
© 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. 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.
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.