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PRI MONTH 2019 | WORLD’S BIGGT GAY PARAS & LGBTQ MARCH
Was a young whe man om the Midwt (as suggted “Stonewall, ” a 2015 film that prompted boytt petns lnched by the Gay-Straight Alliance Network of school stunts and unr accatns of “whewashg” the real history) or the transgenr women of lor who’ve been creasgly regnized as the first to fight back that night? Eher way, the patrons of that private club, who clashed wh police durg a raid ostensibly for sellg liquor whout a perm, helped talyze the morn movement for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, qutng, tersex and asexual rights (LGBTQIA) the Uned Stat and beyond. “If the poison is shame, the antidote is pri, ” says Ed Salvato, paraphrasg activists who pneered the morn gay rights movement.
The queer pneers, as Salvato, chief ntent officer of Man About World, an app-based mobile gay travel magaze, explas, realized that spe not yet havg polil power, they uld choose to be themselv, proudly, whout bendg to society’s expectatns.
Other events clu: Pri Island, a two-day mic ftival on Pier 97 Hudson River Park wh headler Grace Jon; a “graphic art, anime, and manga-spired stume party for all nerdy members of the LGBTQ+ muny” lled Cosplay & Pri; the Chelsea Challenge ice hockey tournament; Femme Fatale, the “official rooftop party for women”; and four days of Gay & Sober Pri events, cludg workshops, prentatns, meetgs, and activi. To memorate the Stonewall Uprisg and the first “Gay Power” monstratn NYC held 1969 a month later that brought together 500 people, NYC Pri is hostg Rally, a civil rights monstratn to speak out agast the human rights ab of today, on Friday, June 28, 2019. While Pk Saturday started as a prott march, Pri Amsterdam began as a party celebratg eedom and diversy and promotg the cy as a gay statn, says Pri Amsterdam’s director Lucien Spee.
A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
Throughout the ft, visors n take advantage of Pri guid tours through the cy’s most proment mms to ga a glimpse of Vienna’s rich history, which clus numero gay and lbian emperors, warlords, prcs and posers. Or take a gay cy tour wh stops at the Vienna Opera, the Imperial Palace, Provintia Founta, Ner Markt and the Park of Belvere Palace—the summer rince of one of the most proment gay people Atrian history: Prce Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). Check here for more about what Vienna has to offer LGBT folks, cludg f, bars, and rtrants; the drag scene; gay snas; shoppg; as well as women-foced venu “created for and by women.
When choosg your lodgg, stay near Wienzeile for gay nightlife or historic Old Town if cultural landmarks are more your vibe. On May 17, lawmakers Taiwan approved a bill legalizg same-sex marriage, a landmark cisn that mak the self-led island the first place Asia to pass gay marriage legislatn.