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Contents:

• GAY PRI
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

GAY PRI

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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).

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

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.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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.

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.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

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... Edmund Whe, Amerin wrer of novels, short fictn, and nonfictn whose crilly acclaimed work foc on male homosexual society Ameri.

E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate... Harry Hay, Amerin gay rights activist who believed that homosexuals should see themselv as an opprsed mory entled to equal rights. The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as lbianism.

Wolfenn Report, a study ntag remendatns for laws erng sexual behavur, published 1957 by the Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn Great Bra. José Sarria, Lato Amerin drag performer and polil activist who was the first openly gay person to n for public office the Uned Stat.

Supreme Court on May 20, 1996, void (6–3) an amendment to the Colorado state nstutn that prohibed laws protectg the rights of homosexuals.

This new encyclopedia, “Global Encyclopedia of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, ” will foc on– as the tle stat– on the global history of the LGBT people. This far-reachg and ntemporary new Encyclopedia exam and explor the liv and experienc of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) dividuals, focg on the ntexts and forc that shape their liv. gay rights movement, also lled gay liberatn movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons (i.

E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.