Global Encyclopedia of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) History

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Filter a database of pri flags by lor, number of strip, and special shap. This ever growg list will help you intify and learn about flags you see at pri ftivals and the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny.

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GAY PRI

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. * lgbt encyclopedia *

The Global Encyclopedia of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, a Charl Scribner's Sons tle, vers the history of, and current velopments , LGBTQ-related topics and events around the world.

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The gay rights movement origally foced on the rights of homosexual men and women, but has sce e to advote equal rights for bisexual, transgenr, and queer dividuals addn to gay... * lgbt encyclopedia *

LeratureThe Lerature sectn of the glbtq Encyclopedia was origally based on a prted book, The Gay and Lbian Lerary Herage (New York: Henry Holt, 1995; rev. The glbtq project was found 2000 by Publisher Wik Wikholm to create the world's largt encyclopedia of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer culture and history and to liver onle.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng, tersex, asexual, and more. The terms are ed to scribe a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. * lgbt encyclopedia *

Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname 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, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * lgbt encyclopedia *

Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore. In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag. As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march.

The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e. The gay rights movement origally foced on the rights of homosexual men and women, but has sce e to advote equal rights for bisexual, transgenr, and queer dividuals addn to gay men and lbians. Organizatns such as the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, and the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, along wh dividual activists such as Harvey Milk, Audre Lor, and Larry Kramer, creased the movement's visibily and ntributed to s efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny (LGBTQ muny), any untry, regn, cy, or other loly, a group of persons who intify as lbian, gay ( the narrow sense of beg a male who is sexually or romantilly attracted to other mal), bisexual, transgenr, or * lgbt encyclopedia *

The issu of primary importance for the movement have clud repealg antisodomy laws, batg the HIV/AIDS epimic, securg marriage rights for gay and lbian upl, and lobbyg ernments for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other areas of life. Larry Kramer, Amerin playwright, screenwrer, and gay rights activist whose nontatnal style of advocy, while divisive, was creded by many wh talyzg the rponse to the HIV/AIDS crisis... Magn Hirschfeld, German physician who was an important theorist of sexualy and a proment advote of gay rights the early 20th century.

Stonewall rts, seri of vlent nontatns that began the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outsi the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar the Greenwich Village sectn...

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