Portland has long celebrated s Pri ftival late June—equently overlappg wh Father’s Day to the light and / or nsternatn of many daddy lovers. Acrdg to Oregonian archiv, the tradn go at least as far back as the first cy-regnized Gay Pri Day, on June 25, 1977. (And a Gay Pri Fair the South Park Blocks on June 28, 1975!) Pri Northwt announced Tuday that ’s ready for a change. In 2023, Portland’s...
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A COMPREHENSIVE GUI TO PORTLAND’S BT LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE
The big para mov to July, but June is still packed wh Pri events and ftivals, om the Portland Gay Men's Chos Disney Show to the Queer We Ft. * gay pride month portland oregon *
Supreme Court lg that favored of a signer who don’t want to make weddg webs for gay upl and a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the untry this year, such as legislatn targetg drag performanc and genr-nfirmg health para-goer said was nice to see a posive si to thgs bee Pri is sential to show people ’s worth to live as their tt self. The Stonewall Uprisg began on June 28, 1969, when police raid the Stonewall Inn, a proment gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. To put together Pri events was om cisgenr, gay whe men.
But even before the first Pri paras, mblgs of the gay rights movement were happeng all over the untry. In 1950, for example, activist Harry Hay found the Mattache Society, the first natnal gay rights anizatn. Rabow palism:How rporate 'symbolic' LGBTQ pri n be harmfulThe year 1965 saw the first “Remr Day, ” an annual picketg event outsi of Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall llg attentn to the lack of civil rights for the LGBTQ 1966, the Mattache Society staged a “sip-” at a Greenwich Village bar after the New York Liquor Authory banned servg gay patrons bee they were “disorrly, ” PBS wrote.
This led to the foundg of the Natnal Transsexual Counselg the LGBTQ rights movement grew, the muny turned away om terms like transsexual and homosexual to transgenr, gay and lbian. In earlier protts, the “Homophile Movement” the 1950s and 1960s foced on rpectabily – drsg sus and skirts and rryg signs prott.