Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969.
Contents:
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- GAY PRI
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
Followg a police vasn of a gay club loted Greenwich Village, rts and protts ensued throughout the cy.
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"The majory of people at Stonewall were eher drag queens or gay men of lor, " T Montalvo, a hairdrser and makp artist who was 16 at the time, told USA TODAY's Dalv that time, New York Cy, “masqueradg” as a member of the oppose sex was a crime.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians.