A Proclamatn on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month, 2021 | The Whe Hoe

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• D.C. GAY UPLE ROBBED, PISTOL WHIPPED BUT U.S. ATTORNEY HAS YET TO PROSECUTE
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

GAY PRI

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.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

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. 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. © 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.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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.

D.C. GAY UPLE ROBBED, PISTOL WHIPPED BUT U.S. ATTORNEY HAS YET TO PROSECUTE

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. 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. Durg a Whe Hoe briefg on May 31, Print Joe Bin proclaimed June 2022 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex Pri Month.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

It go back to June 28, 1969, when police raid a gay club lled the Stonewall Inn New York.

Siar raids on gay-iendly bs had been occurrg for s, but Stonewall was one of the first tim when the patrons fought back. A diverse crowd of lbians, gay men and transgenr women, many of whom were people of lor, clashed wh the police, threw bottl and refed to be timidated.

On June 28, 1969, New York Cy police nducted a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar Greenwich Village. The raid was ostensibly bee the place lacked a liquor license—thori didn’t often approve them for gay bars—but was the latt a long le of actns taken specifilly to persecute the cy's LGBTQ muny.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

The so-lled “Stonewall Rts” (or “Stonewall Uprisg”) weren’t the first time the untry’s LGBTQ muny had fought openly agast systemic opprsn and human rights vlatns; fact, the first gay rights mpaign the U.

The theme was “gay pri, ” and the LGBTQ muni of Chigo, San Francis, and Los Angel also anized events for the the Stonewall Rts helped her a new era of LGBTQ activism and “Gay Pri” beme the slogan for an creasgly global movement, the U. In June of that year, Print Bill Clton memorated the 30th anniversary of Stonewall by clarg June as “Gay and Lbian Pri Month. ” Ten years later, Print Barack Obama issued another proclamatn updatg s tle to “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month.

Although has been celebrated for more than 50 years, Print Bill Clton officially clared June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month 2000.