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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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
© 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. At the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns Philalphia on November 2, 1969, the ia of a march rponse to the Stonewall events was proposed. 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.
GAY PRI
Th, was cid that the march’s theme would be “gay pri. Gay is good, gay is proud. 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.
Thereafter, Gay Pri, or LGBTQ Pri, generally me to be celebrated the Uned Stat on the last Sunday June (though there were many exceptns) as somber march evolved to joyo celebratns. Ernment when Print Bill Clton clared June 1999 “Gay and Lbian Pri Month, ” Print Barack Obama proclaimed June to be “LGBT Pri Month, ” and Print Joe Bin further expand the observance to “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pri Month.
Pri Month is observed June to honor the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, a touchstone event LGBTQ the late 1960s, beg openly gay was largely prohibed most plac. 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.