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Contents:
- D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN
- BLACK PRI: WHY WE NEED AN EVENT TO CELEBRATE BEG BLACK AND GAY
- TWO D.C. GAY BAR CTOMERS STABBED ON SIWALK NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN
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The month of June was chosen for LGBT Pri Month to memorate the rts held by members of the LGBT muny agast a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy on June 28, so-lled Stonewall rts were a "tippg pot" for the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat, acrdg to the Library of Congrs. Gilbert Baker, an Amerin artist, gay rights activist and U. Army veteran, created the flag 1978 as a new symbol for the gay and lbian polil movement, at the suggtn of his iends and lleagu, cludg Harvey Milk, a San Francis cy supervisor and the first openly gay elected official California.
BLACK PRI: WHY WE NEED AN EVENT TO CELEBRATE BEG BLACK AND GAY
Thoands of people take part the annual New York Gay Pri Para Fifth Avenue on June 25, 2017 New H. Their visn and hard work gave life to the first Black Gay and Lbian Pri event on May 25, 1991 on the grounds of Banneker Field. This historic event was a llaboratn among many anizers and anizatns cludg the DC Coaln of Black Lbians and Gay Men and the Inner Cy AIDS Network, and ntued the tradn of the Children’s Hour, while also raisg funds for the HIV/AIDS anizatns that served the Ain- Amerin muny Washgton and the surroundg area.
TWO D.C. GAY BAR CTOMERS STABBED ON SIWALK NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
Black Lbian & Gay Pri Day, Inc. Today, more than 500, 000 members of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny of Ain scent and their alli e to Washgton DC on Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the bety of a shared muny and raise awarens and fundg for HIV/AIDS the name and spir of Black Pri.
While much progrs has been ma across the globe sce 1991, there remas a need to te the muny about HIV/AIDS and stand agast homophobia spired vlence and bigotry that remas prevalent throughout society. 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.
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
" 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.