Gay Pri Calendar by Date

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• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
• GAY PRI

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH

Pulse was a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., that was senselsly attacked by a mass shooter. The inic rabow flag we know and love today first buted at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para almost 40 years ago on June 25, 1978 thanks to Gilbert's spirg artistic visn.

Article ntu below advertisementJune 26 — Gay marriage was iStockOn June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court fally ma gay marriage legal all 50 stat, and two years earlier on June 26, 2013, the Defense of Marriage Act was officially abolished, makg same-sex upl able to accs feral benefs. "Article ntu below advertisementJune 28 — Stonewall Rts and first official Pri iStockThe Stonewall Rts, which sentially kicked off the gay rights movement, are dated back to the early morng of June 28, 1969, acrdg to The History Channel. NYPD officers raid a Greenwich Village gay club lled the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, which spired rts om employe, neighbors, patrons, and alli.

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For the next several days, prottors were met wh vlence om police officers, and th, the gay rights movement began. 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.

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.