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Contents:

• GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS
• GAY MEN AT PARA STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• DUTCH ISLAMIST CELL TARGETED GAY PRI PARA, COURT HEARS

GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS

Harvey Milk, the San Francis Supervisor who was the first openly gay elected official California, challenged his iend, gay rights activist Gilbert Baker, to e up wh a symbol of pri for the muny. Historilly, the transgenr muny has equently been exclud om the broar movement for lbian, gay and bisexual equaly. For example, trans people were left out of early drafts of feral legislatn that would protect LGBTQ people om workplace discrimatn bee gay activists felt the bill had a better chance of succeedg whout their cln.

While gay men and lbians are often the most visible fac of the movement, bisexuals reprent around 50% of the LGBTQ muny (PDF). Studi have found that bisexuals have worse health out than their gay and lbian unterparts, part bee they experience discrimatn om both outsi the LGBTQ muny and wh . 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.

GAY MEN AT PARA STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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. " 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.

DUTCH ISLAMIST CELL TARGETED GAY PRI PARA, COURT HEARS

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.

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " the ban on gay and lbian people om servg openly the ary, was repealed 2011. Same-sex marriage is jt one step toward full equaly for LGBT+ people, who are still fightg polil battl clu police btaly and profilg, anti-trans "bathroom bills, " lims on transgenr members of the ary, non-LGBT-iendly healthre polici, the cisn to erase LGBT+ Amerins om the Cens, discrimatn at retail stor and the workplace, and before the shootg rampage at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, 2016, LGBT+ people were already the most likely targets of hate crim the US, acrdg to FBI data. At the 2018 Utah Pri Ftival Salt Lake Cy on June 3, a mob of whe men yelled slurs and physilly attacked gay atten.

The philosophy here is that the LGBT+ movement should fight for everyone the muny, pecially those who have ls — This is an acronym for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, pl other non-heterosexual inti. This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25. Image ptn, Nikolay Alexeyev has been mpaigng for years for the right to stage gay paras RsiaMosw's top urt has upheld a ban on gay pri march the Rsian pal for the next 100 years.

Earlier Rsia's bt-known gay rights mpaigner, Nikolay Alexeyev, had gone to urt hopg to overturn the cy uncil's ban on gay had asked for the right to stage such paras for the next 100 also oppos St Petersburg's ban on spreadg "homosexual propaganda". The European Court of Human Rights has told Rsia to pay him Friday he said he would go back to the European Court Strasbourg to ph for a regnn that Mosw's ban on gay pri march - past, prent and future - was Mosw cy ernment argu that the gay para would risk g public disorr and that most Mv do not support such an September, the Council of Europe - the ma human rights watchdog Europe - will exame Rsia's rponse to a prev European Court lg on the gay rights issue, Rsian media report.

It had nsired Mosw's ban on gay paras verg the perd on this story. Campaigners om the gay and transgenr muni gathered the cy center, brandishg rabow flags, sgg, dancg and givg speech for around 40 mut before police cleared the area. It’s the fourth year a row that the Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Intersex (LGBTI) march is believed to have been banned.