The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Program promot the employment, advancement and retentn of persons wh differg sexual orientatn, genr inty, and genr exprsn the USDA workforce. The LGBTQ+ Program serv as a rource to assist managers intifyg and rolvg employment, retentn, and work environment issu affectg LGBTQ+ employe at USDA. LGBTQ Pri Month
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- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
- GAY PRI
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) PROGRAM
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
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. * gay pride bisexual *
Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought — and ntue to fight — for full equaly. BIDEN JR., 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 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month. Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname 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, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood.
Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).
GAY PRI
* gay pride bisexual *
In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year). Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore.
In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag. As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march. The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e.
A Progrs Pri flag and rabow flags are seen at the Stonewall Natnal Monument, the first US natnal monument dited to LGBTQ history and rights, markg the birthplace of the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer civil rights movement, on June 1, 2020 New York Cy.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) PROGRAM
Mirrorg the rabow, this flag was first flown the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para June 1978. Nearly 40 years later, the Philalphia Pri Flag was created to make the origal Pri Flag more clive for people of lor light of racism “the thrivg Gayborhood of Philalphia. In this Monday, June 19, 2017, Philalphia’s altered gay pri flag is seen outsi Cy Hall.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
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.
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.