Gay Pri Month fuels a rporate backlash that hurts gay rights

Contents:

• THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022
• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
• CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
• ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022

The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people. Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.

In June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ+ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village. This seri of events was a turng pot for the LGBTQ+ muny and marks one of the most signifint events leadg to the morn gay rights movement.

As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival. Most gay pri paras and events also occur durg a peak season of the year when the weather most ial, yet another reason to book your trip durg the event.

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

Whether travelg alone, wh iends or fay, visg durg a gay pri event n be a fun way to experience a new statn and IGLTA n help you fd LGBTQ-iendly bs almost any lotn to help make you trip memorable, safe and excg. We have published this lendar to rm the LGBTQ+ muny of important gay pri events and paras globally to offer a plete source for planng your travel. Durg a Whe Hoe briefg on May 31, Print Joe Bin proclaimed June 2022 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex Pri Month.

Siar raids on gay-iendly bs had been occurrg for s, but Stonewall was one of the first tim when the patrons fought back. A diverse crowd of lbians, gay men and transgenr women, many of whom were people of lor, clashed wh the police, threw bottl and refed to be timidated. Courty of Fabletics, Tyler-T-01, Naomi-H-01, DiamoFabletics has lnched an all-new "Uned Pri" llectn partnership wh GLAAD, which is a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer advocy anizatn.

KérastaseSupportg The Trevor Project’s missn to end suici among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer & qutng (LGBTQ) young people, Kérastase will be fancially ntributg $50, 000 2022. Their stori are told through photographs, wrten letters and art, which were curated to a digal gallery and are now on by Piercg PagodaBanter by Piercg Pagoda ‘SayGAY' necklaceCourty of Banter by Piercg PagodaThis necklace, ma partnership wh the It Gets Better Project, tak a direct stance agast the legislature Florida, known as the "Don't Say Gay" addn, 100% of sal om the necklace, up to $25, 000, will benef the It Gets Better Project.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022

The genr-clive adult llectn is available siz XXS-XXXL and clus everythg om T-shirts to sandals and pany has also mted to an creased donatn of $400, WilHarper Wil "Liberatn for All" Bra and "Say Gay" enamel pHarper WilHarper Wil unveiled a new Pri psule llectn that amplifi the msage that "there is no pri for some of whout liberatn for all of . Rue21e21 Lnch #SayGay Pri mpaignRue21Rue21 has partnered wh The Trevor Project for s #SayGay Pri 2022 mpaign and has also lnched a new genr-ntral clothg Amerin specialty retailer has also mted to makg a donatn to The Trevor SpaKate Spa rabow the name of love pendantKate SpaKate Spa's 2022 Rabow Assortment clus a large tote, a sweatshirt and an array of jewelry fashn label has pledged to donate 10% of profs om the llectn across male and off-price channels directly to The Trevor Project to help provi suici preventn and mental health rourc to LGBTQ+ BetySally Hansen Insta-Dri Pri polishUltaUlta Bety has a wi assortment of LGBTIQ+-found brands alongsi bright and lorful Pri-spired products.

Europe is set to explo wh LGBTQ+ energy this June as Gay Pri events kick off ci across the of the vibrant celebratns are returng after beg ncelled for two years nng amid the ronavis panmic. Followg the para, many participants will head to Via San Gvanni Laterano, dubbed Rome’s gay street, to ntue celebratg s many gay bars and clubs will host special events that extend the ftivi well to the night when the whole street normally be one big open air party. Cologne Gay Pri Cologne, GermanyJune 18th-July 3rdOne of the biggt LGBTQ+ events Europe tak place each year this historic German cy.

CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO

Cologne Gay Pri is the biggt LGBTQ+ celebratn Germany and will beg mid June this events will last a ltle over two weeks and will clu sports tournaments, nferenc, readgs and lots of ma events will take place durg the first weekend of July.

In a gture of solidary wh Ukrae, the participants of both events will march together Equaly Para, which has been held the pal sce 2001, is the largt gay pri para central Europe. The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi.

New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days. The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement.

‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns. Baker, a proment gay rights activist, gave a nod to the strip of the Amerin flag but drew spiratn om the rabow to reflect the many groups wh the gay muny. From Florida’s so-lled “don’t say gay” bill and Alabama’s ban on genr-affirmg healthre, a total of 28 stat have troduced more than 300 anti-LGBTQ+ measur that seek to turn back the clock on our hard-earned eedoms and lim our abily to live almost feels like the past 60 years of activism, heroism and radil tn by queer folks have been undone.

And Reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene recently tweeted that she will be “troducg a bill to make illegal for children to be exposed to Drag Queen performanc” misguid efforts to monize LGBTQ+ folks reek of s-old homophobia and transphobia that have placed a mented time warp and tapulted back to an era before Stonewall and before the advancement of the morn queer liberatn, even though buyg a rabow clutch om Coach might provi some momentary athetic pleasure, the way forward the midst of such rampant and vic attacks on queer and trans liv is through llective anizg, not llectg Pri merch.

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