June is Pri Month many parts of the world, memoratg the Stonewall uprisg of June 1969, when lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people New York stood up agast police btaly and jtice and mand fair treatment.
Contents:
- I’M A GAY MAN. HERE’S WHY I DON’T CELEBRATE PRI MONTH
- LGBT PRI MONTH 2018: 50 GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT PNEERS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- NYC PRI 2018: THE BIG APPLE’S BIG GAY PRI MONTH
- I’M A GAY MAN. HERE’S WHY I DON’T CELEBRATE PRI MONTH
I’M A GAY MAN. HERE’S WHY I DON’T CELEBRATE PRI MONTH
The history of Pri — as well as the larger LGBT rights movement — dat back to the late 1960s at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan.
LGBT PRI MONTH 2018: 50 GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT PNEERS YOU NEED TO KNOW
The venue was known as the rare spot where same-sex patrons uld dance wh each other whout the fear of the time, was fairly mon for police to raid gay bars and nightclubs, pecially big ci like New York Cy and Los Angel.
The Stonewall Inn — a two-story tablishment on Manhattan's Wt Si — still operat today as a gay bar and entertament revenue. The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-clared "gay Betsy Ross. " He created the flag for the 1978 Gay Freedom Pri Para San Francis, at the requt of Harvey Milk, a gay lol polician who was assassated later that year.
In recent years, the flag has been adapted to clu black and brown, for racial clivy and HIV/AIDS Forrt Wickman wrote Slate, closeted queer people have historilly ed bright lors to signal their homosexualy to each other. In 1975, the US troduced the first feral gay-rights bill to addrs discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " the ban on gay and lbian people om servg openly the ary, was repealed 2011.
NYC PRI 2018: THE BIG APPLE’S BIG GAY PRI MONTH
Same-sex marriage is jt one step toward full equaly for LGBT+ people, who are still fightg polil battl clu police btaly and profilg, anti-trans "bathroom bills, " lims on transgenr members of the ary, non-LGBT-iendly healthre polici, the cisn to erase LGBT+ Amerins om the Cens, discrimatn at retail stor and the workplace, and before the shootg rampage at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, 2016, LGBT+ people were already the most likely targets of hate crim the US, acrdg to FBI data. At the 2018 Utah Pri Ftival Salt Lake Cy on June 3, a mob of whe men yelled slurs and physilly attacked gay atten.
I’M A GAY MAN. HERE’S WHY I DON’T CELEBRATE PRI MONTH
The philosophy here is that the LGBT+ movement should fight for everyone the muny, pecially those who have ls — This is an acronym for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, pl other non-heterosexual inti. The difference between what means to be a gay person on the Right and a gay person on the Left is beg far more profound than mere polil disagreement. Although there is much discsn about the legimacy of gay nservativ, we often don’t articulate why we reject our socially assigned muny, or how difficult that separatn n sometim be.