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Tuday is the begng of Pri Month, which is celebrated annually June to celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people and to honor the Stonewall June 1969, the Stonewall Inn New York Cy was raid by police, but LGBTQ people fought back, sparkg an uprisg and three nights of unrt.
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. 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. 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.