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.
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- 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.
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.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
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.
In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians. Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy. Stonewall RtsAs was mon practice many ci, the New York Police Department would ocsnally raid bars and rtrants where gays and lbians were known to gather.