The gay rights movement wouldn't be where is today whout the Black queer muny. Let's stop erasg their ntributns om LGBTQ+ history." emprop="scriptn
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US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
* the first gay pride was a riot patch *
Though the first Gay Pri Liberatn March took place Manhattan 1970 to memorate the one-year anniversary of Stonewall, took 30 years for Pri Month to bee official, a 1999 proclamatn om former Print Bill Clton. "One of the gay epicenters of the world was thst to chaos, and Pri Month would beg jt unr 48 hours. Scrollg through my social media, I was stck by the number of whe gay men—who hadn't bothered to mentn the aths of Floyd or Ahmd Arbery or Tony McDa—seethg about the lootg their neighborhood.
Gay bars were the only refuge for LGBTQ+ people, where they uld be left alone and celebrate themselv. For six days, Greenwich Village was thst to protts and vlent clash wh the uprisg effectively lnched the gay rights movement we know today. The anger that has epted after the murrs of Gee Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmd Arbery (and thoands of other Black people) is eply and historilly nnected to gay liberatn.
THE FIRST GAY PRI WAS A RT LGBT LBIAN PATCH
The llective anger and anguish followg the murrs of Tony McDa, Riah Milton, and Domique “Rem’mie” Fells have sparked a return to the radil roots of the gay liberatn movement. * the first gay pride was a riot patch *
The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual nsired beg gay a mental disorr; fact, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn didn’t remove homosexualy as a disorr until 1973. While Stonewall is remembered as the rt that sparked the gay liberatn movement as we know , others me before , most prott of unwarranted police surveillance and btaly agast disenanchised queer people of lor.
As Out has outled, books such as Cy of Night and Gay L. : A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Polics, and Lipstick Lbians nsir the first morn gay uprisg to be the Cooper’s Donuts Rts. It occurred May 1959, after law enforcement arrted LGBTQ+ folks whout probable e as they hung out at the gay-iendly donut shop.
” And then me Stonewall — a seri of events that perfectly illtrat how the revolutnary elements of the fight for civil rights fluenced gay liberatn. But what we do know is that on the night of June 27, 1969, the Stonewall Inn wnsed a vlent police raid on drag queens, transgenr people, and gay people, a majory of whom were Black or brown.