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.
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At the time, was the rare neighborhood where gay people uld go and meet public, and Pri paras operated at a neighborhood-level size too — a far cry om the timated five ln people who attend last July’s World Pri event New York Cy, the largt LGBTQ celebratn history. “That was the epicenter of the gay world, ” he says of the early years of Pri. While the Stonewall anniversary had long provid the timg for annual Pri events, Print Bill Clton issued a proclamatn 1999 that every June would be Gay and Lbian Pri Month the U.
(Print Barack Obama broaned the fn 2008, when he issued a proclamatn that the month of June be memorated as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri Month. Have that rabow mean somethg 365 days out of the year, ” Ellen Broidy, a member of the Gay Liberatn Front and -founr of the first annual Gay Pri March 1970, told TIME last year.
For others, livg environments where beg gay risks state-sanctned vlence and even ath, Pri events perform a functn siar to that seen plac like New York the 1970s, as a val lifele. “For me, was a time to brg the muny together, and for them to know they are not alone, wherever they are hidg, ” says Nabager, addg that people who might not have seen themselv as LGBTQ activists me to the event, and later joed wh advotg for gay rights the untry. Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s.