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.
Contents:
- GAY PRI
- GAY AND PROUD
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- WHY I'M NOT PROUD OF BEG GAY
GAY PRI
© 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.
GAY AND PROUD
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. 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.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
”In March, some men will cry the need for an Internatnal Women’s Day, celebrated on the is Pri Month, a time to reflect on and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer history. There is a level of social and systemic privilege not afford to many members of the LGBTQ muny North Ameri, and certaly many untri around the is herently polilPri has been celebrated every year June sce 1970 after the 1969 Stonewall rts New York, when police raid the Stonewall Canada, Toronto’s Pri was lnched siar fashn after protts epted when police raid four bathho Febary 1981 and arrted hundreds of gay motive has always been — and should rema — polil.
LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
The slg back of hard-earned rights and protectns of LGBTQ people, particularly transgenr people, is difficult to when straight people ask why there is a need for gay pri or wonr why there aren’t straight pri celebratns, feels a lot like they are sayg ntributns by LGBTQ people — a mory group that fac nstant adversy — are simply not worthy of regnn. 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. 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.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
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. 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. “Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud” (1968), a funk song by Jam Brown (1933-2006), probably fluenced the gay pri chant. Gay pri or LGBT pri is the posive stance agast discrimatn and vlence toward lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmatn, digny, equaly rights, crease their visibily as a social group, build muny, and celebrate sexual diversy and genr variance.
WHY I'M NOT PROUD OF BEG GAY
Rangg om solemn to rnivalque, pri events are typilly held durg LGBT Pri Month or some other perd that memorat a turng pot a untry’s LGBT history, for example Mosw Pri May for the anniversary of Rsia’s 1993 crimalizatn of homosexualy. On November 2, 1969, Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Lda Rhos proposed the first pri march to be held New York Cy by way of a rolutn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) meetg Philalphia.
NEW YORK (UPI)—Bright banners and bold slogans clarg pri homosexualy marked a three-e march by 15, 000 to 20, 000 men and women Sunday. The para om Greenwich Village through midtown Manhattan to Central Park was the culmatn of “Gay Liberatn Week, ” a seri of celebratns signed to publicize the new ant fervor among hornosexual anizatns. 18 March 1971, The Village Voice (New York, NY), “Gay march on Albany: Comg out agast straight-jacket laws” by Arthur Bell, pg.
One betiful thg that’s e om Stonewall, a sense of muny bt felt at danc and monstratns, never before felt at bars, never ever felt, at least by this feeler, before gay beme proud. On Gay Pri Day of 1970, some twenty thoand homophile men and women gathered New York’s Central Park for a “Gay-In” of speech, songs, sign-wavg and chantg, wh the slogans reflectg an creasgly ant temper:. 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.