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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HOW THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT STARTED
The new fac of LGBTQ+ London: picturHistory of Pri month and the Stonewall RtsJune is Pri Month bee cis wh the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall year, the early hours of June 28, eight police officers om the New York “Public Morals Divisn” raid the Stonewall Inn — a gay bar Greenwich Village, New York was nothg particularly exceptnal about this. Stonewall 50th anniversary - picturAnd over the past five s, they have bee a plard to articulate specific mands, propellg like gay marriage and AIDS the 1980s, “Gay Freedom” beme “Gay Pri” and, om 2009 to 2016, Print Obama officially clared June the month of LGBT Pri. The UK’s biggt Pri event, Pri London, will take place tomorrow to celebrate the LGBT+ muny and fight for 2022 Pri Para will volve more than 30, 000 participants, startg at Hy Park Corner and endg at Whehall marks the 50th anniversary of the first historic prott the UK, when “hundreds of queer people marched fiantly through the streets of London to mand that they be treated wh rpect by a society that loathed them”, said Pk some of the veterans who took to the streets that day have said the official morn celebratns are a far cry om the prott of was the talyst for the gay pri movement?
Disput rema “about how exactly the rts began, but is agreed that they were the rult of police raidg the bar for activy then nsired crimal”, said The clash ntued for more than three days, and herald “a more ant approach – a more ant era – which gay people mand rpect and equaly, rather than askg for , or tryg to te the heterosexual populatn”, Michael Bronski, a profsor women’s and genr studi at Harvard Universy, told “there has always been ristance by LGBTQ+ people agast opprsn – om the law, the police, ernment officials, church doctre”, add Bronski, thor of A Queer History of the Uned Stat. ”That first weekend of memoratns would eventually turn to a month-long seri of events and paras, all unr the banner of UK’s first Pri march was anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) and held on 1 July 1972.
He explaed that he tend each stripe to reprent an aspect of the gay inty: “hot pk for sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, digo for harmony and vlet for spir” do Pri mean today? Two Brish activists, Aubrey Walter and Bob Mellor, hopped on a plane and arrived jt time to attend the Black Panther's Revolutnary Peopl' Conventn – where, for the first time, an vatn was extend to legatns om the movements for women's and gay rights.
THE ARE THE RADIL ROOTS OF BRISH GAY PRI
A month later they were back home foundg the London branch of the GLF a basement of the London School of Lumsn is passnate that this history not be fotten: "Our Gay Liberatn starts the Black Panther movement. Photo: Ray Malone It is pursu of exactly that goal that the GLF – s after origally disband – has the 17th of June, 2019, almost exactly 50 years after Stonewall, a crowd of gay, lbian, trans, non-bary and queer activists gathered at Trafalgar Square, the se of the first London Pri march 1972. The origal GLF mands, drafted by John Chterman, were read out – and several morn on add, focg on Pri once aga fg self as a prott, ee and accsible to all, wh environmental Pollard spoke furly about how Pri London had llaborated wh the arms manufacturer BAE Systems, allowg the pany to "pkwash" s diversy brandg while makg billns sellg weapons to profoundly homophobic, misogynist and thorarian regim such as Sdi Lumsn stck a more nciliatory tone after the event, sistg that the volunteers at Pri London are all "betiful and sensive people who unrstand the need for change and are tryg – fs and starts – to work wh .
Queer culture and imagatn are yet aga beg exploed, -opted and gentrified – and our ternalised homophobia and low self-teem are beg manipulated so that we ourselv are actually ma part of that procs. Amid the outfs and the parti and the joy, 's worth rememberg Andrew Lumsn, Stuart Feather, Nettie Pollard, Ted Brown, Peter Tatchell and all the origal Gay Liberatn Front – as well as all the others who gave so much. Image: Peter Tatchell on the London Gay Pri march 1973, wh the plard: "Homosexuals Are Revoltg" (revoltg, as makg a revolutn agast "straight supremacism") back the early 1970s, I was a member of the newly-formed Gay Liberatn Front (GLF).
In 1972 homosexualy was still classified as an illns, lbian mothers had their kids taken off them by the urts, and the police were at war wh the gay muny - wh thoands of gay and bisexual men arrted for nsentg behavur. Nearly half of all LGBT pupils are bullied at school, there are hundreds of queer-bashg attacks every year and a quarter of the Brish public still believe that homosexualy is always or mostly wrong.
GAY PRI
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 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). Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s.
Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians. In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians. Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy.