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GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
The Internatnal Homomonument, a monument that honors people persecuted for their sexual orientatn, was vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. * gay pride newyork *
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This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25. And although pri has been celebrated for over 50 years, June wasn’t officially clared as Gay and Lbian Pri Month until Print Bill Clton paved the way 2000. In 2011, Print Barack Obama expand this observance to be all-clive wh Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri.
GAY PRI
Indulge gay nostalgia wh Christa Aguilera and Junr Vasquez, see Billy Porter march, or dance the night away at Body Hack. * gay pride newyork *
Gay Pri Week & Christopher Street Para. The New York Gay Pri is one of the olst paras for gays om all over the world. If you’re unaware, the Uprisg hosted around 500 people gatherg for a “Gay Power” monstratn si of Washgton Square Park and was followed by a ndlelight vigil at Sheridan Square.
GAY PRI CALENDAR
Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world. * gay pride newyork *
This year’s So Many Issu wh Las: The JUST SAY GAY Show featur some well-known talents om the LGBTQIA+ muny, cludg Asha Ward, Freeda Kulo, Nick Gaga and more. Events and their supporters have st a pall over gay bars and muny Cullg marched wh a sign that read, “I march for my dghter” – a fact more ways than one, havg crossed the untry wh her 18-year-old trans dghter om Southern California search of a more welg home.
The annual para clud joyo celebratn, but the Supreme Court’s abortn lg and the threat to gay rights st an unniable shadow. * gay pride newyork *
Young people particular, banng transgenr health re for mors and barrg teachers om discsg gay and transgenr topics a report released last week, two civil rights groups documented more than 350 acts of anti-L. Harassment, vandalism or vlence the Uned Stat between June 2022 and April 2023, wh more than half explicly referrg to gay or transgenr people as of those cints have been adly.
Gay Pri 2023 NYC promis to be another big party, wh the Pri March, virtual events, Pri Ft and more. * gay pride newyork *
Such a plan was rried out by a shooter Colorado who killed five people and jured 17 more at a gay bar last November, what prosecutors have said was a hate same month, anxieti were high New York after a gay bar had s wdow smashed by bricks four tim one month.
Weeks later, the office of a gay New York Cy Council member was vandalized by opponents of Drag Story Time, who then vandalized his home and asslted his Hamja/The New York TimEven the se of Stonewall Inn, the se of the 1969 rts, has not been spared. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak.
But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post. Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.Spencer Hodson/Instagram.
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The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height.
“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store?
The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent,” he add.
Celebrate the Gay Pri Para NYC this year wh a huge party. Jo the Gay Pri March, Pri Island Ftival and PriFt New York. * gay pride newyork *
Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram.