Contents:
- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
In the days and weeks leadg up to Pri, you may see the rabow flag and hear terms like LGBTQ+ heavily ed everythg om televisn mercials to prt ads and newspaper are probably already aware that the acronym LGBTQ+ refers to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (and Qutng) rpectively. When the gay rights movement started the seventi and early eighti, gay men were largely the on nng the effort.
Gay bars big ci tered to their clientele, but lbians were nsistently not clud those spac. Intertgly, was the AIDS crisis the eighti and early neti that ntributed to the shift the letter orr, maly due to the important role that the lbian muny played the re and treatment of gay men who were sufferg om AIDS. Lbians were at the foreont of helpg gay men wh medil re— they donated blood, provid food and shelter, and stepped to nurse the ill when many refed to treat them wh re and rpect.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
Their willgns to support gay men their time of need sparked a closer relatnship between the two groups. This creased mararie led to a rise femism both lbians and gay men. Lbians were at the foreont of helpg gay men wh medil re—they donated blood, provid food and shelter, and stepped to nurse the ill when many refed to treat them wh re and the orr of the letters LGBTQ+ meansBoth men and women the muny beme more receptive to femist ias and the ph to change the orr of the letters to have the ‘L’ e first was a relatively easy one.