A Proclamatn on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month, 2021 | The Whe Hoe

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH

GAY PRI

But we are also remd that we are not tly equal until every person is afford the same rights and opportuni -- that when one of experienc discrimatn, affects all of -- and that our journey is not plete until our lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law.

We are updatg our Natnal HIV/AIDS Strategy to better addrs the disproportnate burn HIV has on muni of gay and bisexual men and transgenr women. Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month, we celebrate the proud legacy LGBT dividuals have woven to the fabric of our Natn, we honor those who have fought to perfect our Unn, and we ntue our work to build a society where every child grows up knowg that their untry supports them, is proud of them, and has a place for them exactly as they are.

GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH

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 2015 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr 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.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

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.

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.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH

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. While we want to have fun and e together to enjoy ourselv, there should be a remr that the purpose of the gay pri events is to show ourselv as an anized, unified people who offer support to others to e out, not to be ashamed of who they are and wele them to a safe and lovg place where they n be themselv.

The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement.

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi. New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days. The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement.