Gay rights movement | Defn & History | Branni

Contents:

• IS GAY PRI MONTH CELEBRATED OTHER UNTRI? WHERE ARE SOME OF THE BIGGT EVENTS?
• THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
• GAY DAYS ARE BACK: A TIME-HONORED TRADN RETURNS TO AMEMENT PARKS AROUND THE COUNTRY
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY PRI MONTH IS A TIME FOR JOY, BUT ALSO TO REFLECT ON THOSE STILL BEG PERSECUTED
• THE HYPERTROPHY OF GAY PRI
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

IS GAY PRI MONTH CELEBRATED OTHER UNTRI? WHERE ARE SOME OF THE BIGGT EVENTS?

”In March, some men will cry the need for an Internatnal Women’s Day, celebrated on the is Pri Month, a time to reflect on and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer history.

THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG

There is a level of social and systemic privilege not afford to many members of the LGBTQ muny North Ameri, and certaly many untri around the is herently polilPri has been celebrated every year June sce 1970 after the 1969 Stonewall rts New York, when police raid the Stonewall Canada, Toronto’s Pri was lnched siar fashn after protts epted when police raid four bathho Febary 1981 and arrted hundreds of gay motive has always been — and should rema — polil. The slg back of hard-earned rights and protectns of LGBTQ people, particularly transgenr people, is difficult to when straight people ask why there is a need for gay pri or wonr why there aren’t straight pri celebratns, feels a lot like they are sayg ntributns by LGBTQ people — a mory group that fac nstant adversy — are simply not worthy of regnn.

GAY DAYS ARE BACK: A TIME-HONORED TRADN RETURNS TO AMEMENT PARKS AROUND THE COUNTRY

LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. In 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.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

“A new spir has entered the stggle for homosexual eedom – a new spir both ant tone and revolutnary orientatn, ” a 1970 Gay Liberatn Front flyer reads. Here are the fns to know:L: LbianG: GayB: Bisexual T: TransgenrQ: Queer, or sometim qutng+: Enpass other inti unr the rabow umbrellaDig eper: Learn the meangs, origs of Pri flagsPri Flag | Progrs Pri Flag | Lbian Pri Flag | Bisexual Pri Flag | Pansexual Pri Flag | Asexual Pri Flag | Intersex Pri Flag | Genr Inty Flags | Trans Pri Flag. It’s straight fashn [wh] rabows on , I’ll pass, ” wrote one er, mockg rabow-signed T-shirts featurg slogans “Come to the gay si, we have rabows” and “I n’t even thk straight” om Walmart.

GAY PRI MONTH IS A TIME FOR JOY, BUT ALSO TO REFLECT ON THOSE STILL BEG PERSECUTED

The historic Stonewall uprisg that took place the morng of June 28, 1969 served as a galvanizg event—one year later, to memorate the rts, thoands of marchers took to the New York Cy streets the natn’s first gay pri march.

THE HYPERTROPHY OF GAY PRI

In March 2021, the nonpartisan Public Relign Rearch Instute published a report showg natnwi support for anti-discrimatn laws and marriage equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people reached an all-time high. HIV has been extribly lked wh gay men’s health sce the early 1980s, when officials ially termed what would later bee known as AIDS, Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID).

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

In the early days of the HIV epimic, fear of sual transmissn meant that many gay men had to fight for visibily and equaly not only the ey of the law, but also the ey of their healthre provirs.