This June, we explored the evolutn of the word “pri” and how beme nnected wh the morn gay rights movement.
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GAY PRI
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. * where did the word gay pride come from *
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. 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 HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
by Jordan Redman Staff Wrer Do you know what the word gay really means? The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai,” meang “full of joy or mirth.” It may also relate to the Old High German “gahi,” meang impulsive. * where did the word gay pride come from *
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. Schoonmaker told The Allnist that durg the first Pri March, which he timat brought 3, 000 to 5, 000 people, they were "chantg, thgs like 'Gay is good, ' 'Say loud; I'm gay and I'm proud. 7203, clarg that the LGBTQIA+ muny and s alli would "celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall every June Ameri as Gay and Lbian Pri Month.
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. The Stonewall Inn was a club the Wt Village of New York Cy that weled gay patrons at a time when the New York State Liquor Authory did not give licens to tablishments that served a gay clientele. To get around the law, the mafia-nnected owners of the Stonewall Inn and other gay taverns paid off the police, sentially bribg them to look the other way.
THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
* where did the word gay pride come from *
In subsequent years, the Stonewall rts would creasgly be remembered as the talyst for the morn gay rights movement. The first documented gay rights anizatn, the Society for Human Rights, was actually found Chigo back 1924 ("Gay Rights" 2017). The homophile movement, as was then lled, took a step forward the 1950s, wh the foundg of two natnal anizatns—the Mattache Society for gay men and the lbian anizatn known as Dghters of Bilis.
The movement gaed even more steam the followg , wh formerly subdued events givg way to creasgly assertive actns and lls for “gay power” ("Gay Rights" 2017). ” He ntu, “Stonewall was an achievement [of the gay rights movement, ] and not s e, and an achievement of llective memory and llective actn...
Comg Out of the ShadowsAfter Stonewall, the gay rights movement moved creasgly out of the shadows, wh new anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front and Transvt Actn Revolutnari, embracg large public monstratns and other forms of direct actn the 1970s.