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A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world. * pride month 2021 *
The month se a seri of march, paras and other events held to regnize and celebrate the LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, non-bary and queer) celebratns memorate the Stonewall Uprisg New York Cy, which was a cril turng pot for the gay liberatn movement the untry. A brief historyThe Stonewall Uprisg began on June 28 1969 after police that day raid the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar the Greenwich Village neighborhood Manhattan.
Homosexualy at the time was nsired a crimal offense throughout New York State, wh many gay bars were owned by the mafia and operated whout a liquor license, acrdg to the Library of raids and harassment occurred equently across the U. "It was not the first time police raid a gay bar, and was not the first time LGBTQ+ people fought back, but the events that would unfold over the next six days would fundamentally change the disurse surroundg LGBTQ+ activism the Uned Stat, " the Library of Congrs webse explas. Gay Pri week and gural pri march volved about 3, 000 to 5, 000 gatherers, while today the number has grown to the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn (IGLTA) says: "Gay pri events, cludg gay pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.
Francis, California: Consired the largt gay pri celebratn the untry, San Francis Pri se more than a ln people gather for the event, acrdg to VisUSA, the official U. A Pri Flag seen durg the San Francis Gay Pri para on June 30, 2019 San Francis, California. Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month.
GAY PRI CALENDAR
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. LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. 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.
A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held. 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.