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• THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022
• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW
• ALGéRIE : L GAY PRIS
• CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS

THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022

The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people. Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

In June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ+ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village. As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival. Whether travelg alone, wh iends or fay, visg durg a gay pri event n be a fun way to experience a new statn and IGLTA n help you fd LGBTQ-iendly bs almost any lotn to help make you trip memorable, safe and excg.

LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW

Europe is set to explo wh LGBTQ+ energy this June as Gay Pri events kick off ci across the of the vibrant celebratns are returng after beg ncelled for two years nng amid the ronavis panmic.

Followg the para, many participants will head to Via San Gvanni Laterano, dubbed Rome’s gay street, to ntue celebratg s many gay bars and clubs will host special events that extend the ftivi well to the night when the whole street normally be one big open air party.

Cologne Gay Pri is the biggt LGBTQ+ celebratn Germany and will beg mid June this events will last a ltle over two weeks and will clu sports tournaments, nferenc, readgs and lots of ma events will take place durg the first weekend of July. In a gture of solidary wh Ukrae, the participants of both events will march together Equaly Para, which has been held the pal sce 2001, is the largt gay pri para central Europe. 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.

ALGéRIE : L GAY PRIS

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. Acrdg to GAY TIMES analysis (g a batn IPSOS and UN Populatn data) ’s a group predicted to h 1 billn globally by 2050, wh Gallup’s 2022 study revealg 7.

Redrsg a 2016-iated brilliantly subversive but also highly divisive mpaign where fully lored s famo rabow-lored packagg to honor the ‘most important rabow’ (ntroversial bee some perceived the all-whe sign as promotg the racist whe pri movement) for 2021 partnered wh GAY TIMES and LGBTQ+ helple Swchboard to lorize black-and-whe archive photos om Pri celebratns of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Documentary shorts, stills and quot featured across Gay Tim’ portfol, on Reebok and (footwear retailer) Schuh’s social media platforms, and activatns Schuh flagships. “Sport is a fascatg place bee statistilly LGBTQ+ people tend to be more unf – fuelled by the way profsnal sports is a very heteronormative terra; nsir the environment that exists that means there are currently no openly Gay profsnal footballers the UK, and what that means to LGBTQ+ nsumers.

CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO

Bankg too, is ripe for an update (as an dtry wh servic predomantly ground heterosexual fay-centered liftyl) and mental health, another space where LGBTQ+ behavrs tend to differ; GAY TIMES is also early discsns about a project wh Anglo-Amerin mdfulns app, Headspace. For 2021 was reterpreted aga as #ProudInMyCalvs featurg artists cludg rerd producers Ar and Honey Dijon celebratg fg moments the queer and trans journey, followed by GAY TIMES own story-sharg via s newly formed GT133 group of TikTok-based ntent creators (a micro llective who rpond to topil stori at speed). ” Warner reveals that GAY TIMES is currently discsg a partnership regardg this foc wh a datg app (tails to be revealed later this) anchored fdg love rather than hook-ups.

A very different creature to the pre-Warner era where the dience was domated by whe, gay, fortysomethg men ( now boasts an equal genr spl and a broad trans-generatnal mix, om tweens to those their 60s and 70s) Warner reveals GAY TIMES is planng to build on s transn om pure publisher-to-brand builr by beg a full “cultural platform verg rmatn, products and servic. Courty of Fabletics, Tyler-T-01, Naomi-H-01, DiamoFabletics has lnched an all-new "Uned Pri" llectn partnership wh GLAAD, which is a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer advocy anizatn. KérastaseSupportg The Trevor Project’s missn to end suici among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer & qutng (LGBTQ) young people, Kérastase will be fancially ntributg $50, 000 2022.

Their stori are told through photographs, wrten letters and art, which were curated to a digal gallery and are now on by Piercg PagodaBanter by Piercg Pagoda ‘SayGAY' necklaceCourty of Banter by Piercg PagodaThis necklace, ma partnership wh the It Gets Better Project, tak a direct stance agast the legislature Florida, known as the "Don't Say Gay" addn, 100% of sal om the necklace, up to $25, 000, will benef the It Gets Better Project. The genr-clive adult llectn is available siz XXS-XXXL and clus everythg om T-shirts to sandals and pany has also mted to an creased donatn of $400, WilHarper Wil "Liberatn for All" Bra and "Say Gay" enamel pHarper WilHarper Wil unveiled a new Pri psule llectn that amplifi the msage that "there is no pri for some of whout liberatn for all of . Rue21e21 Lnch #SayGay Pri mpaignRue21Rue21 has partnered wh The Trevor Project for s #SayGay Pri 2022 mpaign and has also lnched a new genr-ntral clothg Amerin specialty retailer has also mted to makg a donatn to The Trevor SpaKate Spa rabow the name of love pendantKate SpaKate Spa's 2022 Rabow Assortment clus a large tote, a sweatshirt and an array of jewelry fashn label has pledged to donate 10% of profs om the llectn across male and off-price channels directly to The Trevor Project to help provi suici preventn and mental health rourc to LGBTQ+ BetySally Hansen Insta-Dri Pri polishUltaUlta Bety has a wi assortment of LGBTIQ+-found brands alongsi bright and lorful Pri-spired products.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

By Pelumi SalakoILORIN, Nigeria, June 23 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) — YouTuber Victor Emmanuel knows first-hand how tough life is for people who are openly gay Nigeria, where LGBTQ+ relatnships and even same-sex displays of affectn are year, he was kidnapped by seven men who blackmailed, extorted, and tortured him for two days an attack that has sce left him nstantly lookg over his shoulr.

"Nigeria is a eply relig untry, where many reject homosexualy as a rptg Wtern 2014, the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibn) Act was signed to law, which bars not only gay relatnships but also any public sign of same-sex affectn or membership of LGBTQ+ groups, wh punishments of up to 14 years prison. Gay sex is illegal more than half of Ain untri, acrdg to global LGBTQ+ rights tracker Equalx, although Gabon, Kenya, and Botswana have all crimalised same-sex relatns recent spe the risks, activists are phg to exprs themselv and mand change this June, a month which is marked around the world wh LGBTQ+ Pri ralli and parti.