Pri 2023: LGBTQ people flock to Florida for Disney's Gay Days celebratn

Contents:

• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• GAY PRI
• GUI TO PRI PARAS AND OTHER EVENTS IN AMERI’S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CI

LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN

On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy neighborhood of Greenwich Village, police raid a popular gay bar: the Stonewall Inn. Wh gay and trans rights unr immediate threat, this year's Pri events are more than jt celebratns – they're tend as acts of uny by LGBTQ muny members and are the top statns to champn and celebrate Pri natnwi York Cy: June 25(Getty Imag)Every year New York Cy throws one of the biggt Pri celebratns the world. In 1978, attorney John Ward tablished the GLBTQ Legal Advot and Defenrs, formerly known as the Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD), Boston.

Its historic Mount Vernon neighborhood was nsired one the area's biggt gay havens before that sentiment expand to other neighborhoods too. – and later changg s name to the Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance – GLAA is one of the olst ntuoly active LGBTQ civil rights anizatns the U.

Another historic tone for LGBTQ activism, the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, was held on D. Bryant was unr fire after lnchg a "Save Our Children" mpaign rponse to a gay rights ordance Da County, Florida, which granted LGBTQ people hog and employment first muny Pri event the Hampton Roads area was a potluck piic June 1986 held by the Mandam Society. Addnally, 1971, Universy of Geia stunts created the Commtee on Gay Edutn, which later evolved to the Lambda Alliance – an officially regnized stunt 1989, the Boybutante AIDS Foundatn was created to provi support to those livg wh HIV and AIDS and to the muny.

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Gay, Lbian or Bisexual Employe Supporters (GLOBES) was created as a support group for staff at the Universy of Geia 1994. The tour pany offers this excursn for a few days throughout Ruth Ellis Center – a social servic agency for LGBTQ youth named after the activist who lived to be one of the olst openly gay Black women the world – is holdg a Catfight for the Crown event on June more tails, vis the Motor Cy Pri webse. Chigo: June 25(Steve Long/Courty of Northalsted)Wh stunng archecture, vibrant nightlife and plenty of plac to grab a be, Chigo is a traveler favore year-round – and yet another statn full of LGBTQ history and Wdy Cy is where the first gay rights anizatn the U.

Chigo is ftgly home to the biggt Pri para the Midwt, which will occur on June 25 this para on average se more than 1 ln spectators attendance; ns through the Boystown neighborhood, which 1997 Chigo clared the "official gay village. Cy to pass a nondiscrimatn ordance; sce then, the area has cultivated a reputatn as one of the iendlit ci for LGBTQ people the untry – and even earned the distctn of beg one of the "gayt" U. Then, dance the night away at the En 2023: Official Pri Girl+ Party on June 23 or the Rich's at Rise after-party on June out the Hoton Pri 365 webse for more Anton: June 24(Courty of)San Anton's LGBTQ history has evolved over the years, om the drag performanc of the 1930s to the cy's Pri march beg a jampacked monthlong celebratn of the LGBTQ year's Pri theme is "Jt Say Gay.

The zoo has fay-iendly activi for all ag as celebrat more rmatn, vis the Pri San Anton Fe, New Mexi: June 24"This is where seasoned gays e to center themselv, but not a borg way, " said the LGBTQ magaze The Advote 2011 when Santa Fe was emed the send gayt cy the U. But Denver also has an energetic LGBTQ scene wh multiple gay-iendly bars, hotels and Pri annual Denver PriFt weekend is the largt Pri event the Rocky Mounta regn, typilly drawg more than 525, 000 participants to s ftivi.

GUI TO PRI PARAS AND OTHER EVENTS IN AMERI’S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CI

Enjoy ris and attractns around the park addn to live entertament and the LA Pri webse for further Francis: June 25(Getty Imag)In the 1960s Life magaze emed San Francis the "gay pal" of the U.

And was home to Harvey Milk, who 1977 was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors as the first openly gay elected official California history.

Seattle: June 25(Getty Imag)No list of Pri celebratns would be plete whout Seattle, another one of the most gay-iendly ci the untry. The neighborhood boasts a lively nightlife wh numero gay bars and nightclubs – as well as rabow-pated crosswalks to help you celebrate Pri year-round alongsi the many events the "Emerald Cy. It also brgs awarens to ongog issu wh all the different muni that make up the LGBTQ June 1999, former Print Bill Clton clared June to be Gay and Lbian Pri Month.

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. By the time the Stonewall Rts end on July 2, 1969, the gay rights movement went om beg a ge issue largely ignored by policians and the media to ont-page news Gay Pri ParaOne year later, durg the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, activists New York Cy marched through the streets of Manhattan memoratn of the uprisg.