Why the Gay Pri Flag Still Matters

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GAY PRI PARAS? IF THE PURPOSE IS CLEAR, IS PRODUCTIVE OR UNTERPRODUCTIVE?
• WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY PRIGAY PRI

GAY PRI

Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname 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, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).

In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year). Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore. In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag.

As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march. The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GAY PRI PARAS? IF THE PURPOSE IS CLEAR, IS PRODUCTIVE OR UNTERPRODUCTIVE?

Print Bill Clton first signated as Gay and Lbian Pri Month on June 11, 1999, wh Print Barack Obama proclaimg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month 10 years later. We celebrate June to ci wh the talyst of the Gay Liberatn Movement that was the Stonewall Uprisg.

She was a Black trans woman celebratg her 25th birthday at the time of the rts and a tour force the gay muny. Stormé DeLarverie was a gay rights activist and drag performer who was also at Stonewall when was raid that night.

WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS

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.

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. It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag. Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAY PRIGAY PRI

As he later said an terview, “Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth, as I say, to get out of the lie.