NYC Pri 2018: The Big Apple's big gay Pri month - HomoCulture

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. 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 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " the ban on gay and lbian people om servg openly the ary, was repealed 2011. 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.

LGBT PRI MONTH 2018: 50 GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT PNEERS YOU NEED TO KNOW

At the 2018 Utah Pri Ftival Salt Lake Cy on June 3, a mob of whe men yelled slurs and physilly attacked gay atten. 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.

NYC PRI 2018: THE BIG APPLE’S BIG GAY PRI MONTH

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. The very ncept of “gay” rights and activism to force a sexual revolutn is the basis of today’s liberalism.

I’M A GAY MAN. HERE’S WHY I DON’T CELEBRATE PRI MONTH

Gays did not beg by askg for marriage or to be viewed as everyday cizens; the movement grew om social rejectn and tentnal unter-culture behavrs and worldviews. Beg gay was more than jt same-sex attractn, was a liftyle of rebelln and creativy. Like most gays my age, I have a set of mon social experienc, but I am told I am not entled to enjoy or appreciate them.

I grew up wh a generatn of gay movi, magaz, onle chat rooms, micians and, of urse, drag queens.