Gay 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 New York Cy of June 28, 1969.
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ARCHIV CENTER LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR (LGBT) COLLECTN
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgenr, Genrqueer, Queer, Qutng, Intersex, Agenr, Asexual, Ally, and other queer-intifyg muny rerds Please note: Although some of the rerds have been digized and ma available onle, there are many rerds that are only available paper or microfilm format at Natnal Archiv and Rerds Admistratn * pride archives lgbt *
The featured documents on this Tumblr blog reflect the history of Amerin lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr men and women om 1778 to the prent. Printial Memorandum—Internatnal Iniativ to Advance the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Persons. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgenr, Genrqueer, Queer, Qutng, Intersex, Agenr, Asexual, Ally, and other queer-intifyg muny rerds.
Photographs by Elae Gay Jarvis of the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para (later known as the Pri Para) San Francis. Our onle d llectns of two rad seri, F Punch and The Gay Life, feature a signifint amount of Pri-related ntent om the 1970s and early 1980s.
“San Francis Pri” faceted search“SF Pri” faceted search“Gay Freedom Day” faceted searchAddnal RourcCatalog search. For stance, this rource explor documents that exist due to the targetg of gay men by police, while love between women was ls crimalised. Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s.
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Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians. In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians. Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy.
Stonewall RtsAs was mon practice many ci, the New York Police Department would ocsnally raid bars and rtrants where gays and lbians were known to gather.