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, 2014
- GAY PRI
- ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
- 2014’S GAY PRI MONTH IS OFF TO A GREAT START
- GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH
PRINTIAL PROCLAMATN -- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH, 2014
* gay pride month 2014 *
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 2014 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month.
GAY PRI
It was St. Petersburg’s first LGBTQ Pri march sce the onslght of the Covid-19 panmic, and jt three months after Florida’s ernor signed what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law. * gay pride month 2014 *
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 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).
The ncept behd the ial Pri march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO), who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn (1965-1969) known as the "Remr Day Pickets, " at Inpennce Hall Philalphia. As members of the Mattache Society of Washgton, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vcenz participated the discsn, planng, and promotn of the first Pri along wh activists New York Cy and other homophile groups belongg to ERCHO.
‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
June is tradnally gay pri month and this year's celebratn is already off to a great start wh Facebook's new emotins and Obama's great speech." emprop="scriptn * gay pride month 2014 *
The Law Library of Congrs has piled guis to memorative observatns, cludg a prehensive ventory of the Public Laws, Printial Proclamatns and ngrsnal rolutns related to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr and Queer 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. 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.
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. 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.
2014’S GAY PRI MONTH IS OFF TO A GREAT START
Fd out the dat, history and background of Gay and Lbian Pri Month USA. * gay pride month 2014 *
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. 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.
GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH
The march, anized by the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Umbrella Commtee, was named the Christopher Street Liberatn Day time, that celebratn me to be simply known as the Gay Pri Para.