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Contents:
- GAY PRI
- ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE PROUD - A HISTORY OF GAY PRI
- WHY I'M NOT PROUD OF BEG GAY
GAY PRI
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Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month. 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.
ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?
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.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
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.
WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE PROUD - A HISTORY OF GAY PRI
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. Print Bill Clton first signated as Gay and Lbian Pri Month on June 11, 1999, wh Print Barack Obama proclaimg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month 10 years later. We celebrate June to ci wh the talyst of the Gay Liberatn Movement that was the Stonewall Uprisg.
In the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, police raid a popular gay bar N.
WHY I'M NOT PROUD OF BEG GAY
She was a Black trans woman celebratg her 25th birthday at the time of the rts and a tour force the gay muny. Stormé DeLarverie was a gay rights activist and drag performer who was also at Stonewall when was raid that night.