Gay Pri 2015: All the Victori We’re Celebratg This Year | Vogue

Contents:

• HAPPY GAY PRI WEEK! ALL THE VICTORI WE’RE CELEBRATG THIS YEAR
• GAY PRI
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• THE 8 BIGGT GAY PRI CELEBRATNS THE WORLD

HAPPY GAY PRI WEEK! ALL THE VICTORI WE’RE CELEBRATG THIS YEAR

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.

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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.

Legal the entire untry of Ireland, a wondro and somewhat stunng turn of events—but a host of other LGBTQ triumphs as sure, Calyn is on the ver of Vany Fair, which we love—but also, Transparent has rocked the TV world, Laverne Cox ntu her rise to super-stardom, openly gay Sam Smh won four top Grammys, Hozier had a huge h wh 'Take Me to Church" (a powerful mand for equal rights) and the marvelo mil lbian-bildungsroman Fun Home swept the Tonys. Later this year, Julianne Moore and Ellen Page will play lovers Freeheld; Eddie Redmayne will tra Stephen Hawkg for the part of a transgenr woman The Danish the legal ont, last July Print Obama signed an executive orr banng workplace discrimatn agast lns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr employe of feral ntractors. )As Pri Sunday approach, we awa wh near hysteril anticipatn the Supreme Court’s imment cisn on whether all stat will be required to rpect each other’s laws when to marriage, or maybe—we n dream—the urt will le that gay marriage should be legal every state.

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month is currently celebrated each year the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan. The purpose of the memorative month is to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals have had on history lolly, natnally, and ternatnally. Memorate the Christopher Street Uprisgs of last summer which thoands of homosexuals went to the streets to monstrate agast centuri of abe...

GAY PRI CALENDAR

Om ernment hostily to employment and hog discrimatn, Mafia ntrol of Gay bars, and anti-Homosexual laws" (Christopher Street Liberatn Day Commtee Fliers, Frankl Kameny Papers). 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.

THE 8 BIGGT GAY PRI CELEBRATNS THE WORLD

At the ERCHO Conference November 1969, the 13 homophile anizatns attendance voted to pass a rolutn to anize a natnal annual monstratn, to be lled Christopher Street Liberatn Day.

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. 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.