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• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

Our missnHerage of Pri is the non prof anizatn that plans and produc New York Cy's official LGBTQIA+ Pri events each year's events memorate the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969 — the begng of the morn Gay Rights missnAboutHerage of Pri works toward a future whout discrimatn where all people have equal rights unr the law. Jo on the Pri March through the Wt Village or giant parti at your favore gay bars wh the LGBTQ+ muny! This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25.

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GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

“When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add. Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.

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After all, ’s where the first brick flew the battle for gay rights at Stonewall 1969! And some parts of the world, a season tend to celebrate the liv and experienc of LGBTQ+ muni and to prott agast attacks on hard-won civil rights has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement sce New York Cy's first Pri march - then dubbed the "Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day" march - on June 28, event marked an act of fiance om the year before, a 1969 uprisg at New York Cy's Stonewall Inn. After a police raid at the gay bar, a crowd partly led by trans women of lor channeled their anger to nont thori.

Events and their supporters have st a pall over gay bars and muny Cullg marched wh a sign that read, “I march for my dghter” – a fact more ways than one, havg crossed the untry wh her 18-year-old trans dghter om Southern California search of a more welg home. Young people particular, banng transgenr health re for mors and barrg teachers om discsg gay and transgenr topics a report released last week, two civil rights groups documented more than 350 acts of anti-L. Harassment, vandalism or vlence the Uned Stat between June 2022 and April 2023, wh more than half explicly referrg to gay or transgenr people as of those cints have been adly.

Such a plan was rried out by a shooter Colorado who killed five people and jured 17 more at a gay bar last November, what prosecutors have said was a hate same month, anxieti were high New York after a gay bar had s wdow smashed by bricks four tim one month.