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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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PRINTIAL PROCLAMATN -- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH, 2013

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2013. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins and their alli have been hard at work on the next great chapter of that history -- om the patrons of The Stonewall Inn who sparked a movement to service members who n fally be hont about who they love to brave young people who e out and speak out every day.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2013 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month.

Sce 1970, the LGBTQ muny has marked June as Pri Month—a time to celebrate what means to be lbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgenr while mandg equaly and liberatn om cis and heteronormative nstrats. Pri paras and march, which are tradnally held on the last weekend June, memorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, a watershed moment LGBTQ history when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan that is now a natnal monument, fought back agast a police year marks the 52nd anniversary of the first gay Pri march, which was held on the first anniversary of the Stonewall rts.

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In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found the Society for Human Rights Chigo; was the first group to mpaign for gay rights the Uned Stat.

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In the 1960s, the Mattache Society, the most proment "homophile" anizatn the U. S., held “annual remrs” at Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall every Fourth of July, where they advoted for lbian and gay Stonewall Inn. While the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March New York Cy is wily nsired to be the first Pri para, actually occurred one day after Chigo held s first march, which technilly mak Chigo the birthplace of the first Pri para may have been Chigo, the mantle of “Mother of Pri” belongs to a lifelong New Yorker: Brenda Howard.

Howard passed away gay rights groups, such as the Mattache Society, foced heavily on rpectabily and nventn, as the drs for their "annual remrs" monstrated (women drs; men jackets and ti). ”New York Cy Lights Up In Support Of The 50th Anniversary Of The First Gay Pri March / Alexi Rosenfeld/GettyImagThe rabow flag, now a ubiquo symbol of the LGBTQ muny, first appeared the 1970s.

Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francis cy supervisor, tasked artist/activist Gilbert Baker wh creatg a symbol for the gay muny to e place of the pk triangle, which Nazi Germany forced gay men to wear ncentratn mps.

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Print had officially regnized June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month. 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). 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.

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