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- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
Yet at Pri events across the world, the acronym still seems synonymo wh “gay, ” and unls somethg is specifilly stated to be bisexual [or transgenr], meang explicly not that ’s an event, float, booth, etc. For bisexual people, is assumed to be gay [and cisgenr] reached out to activists the bisexual muny to learn of ways Pri anizers and atten n be more clive of bisexual folks at Pri events. Don’t Call It “Gay Pri”Words matter.
An impactful thg everyone n do is to stop llg Pri “Gay Pri” and stead simply ll the ftivi “Pri. In fact, acrdg to the 40th annual LGBT Funrs Report, which has tracked fundg to LGBT anizatns between 1970 and 2010, lbian and gay anizatns received $487 ln fundg; transgenr anizatns received $16 ln; and bisexual anizatns received a mere $84, 000 those same four s.
Make LGBTQIA+ Spac Inclive of Everyone the AcronymThe need for bi-specific spac emerg om a fact that Veradonir mak clear: “Unls a para entry or booth is explicly brand as beg bisexual, atten tend to assume every other entry or booth is gay. Gay men hang out wh other gay men, bi folks stick together, and so too do lbian and trans muni.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
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.
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).
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
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.