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June celebrat LGBT Pri Month, a look at some key moments gay rights.

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Hundreds of opponents of gay rights have swarmed the se of an LGBT ftival the pal of the untry of Geia, vandalizg the stage, settg fir and lootg the event’s bar. * gay rights festival *

TBILISI, Geia (AP) — Hundreds of opponents of gay rights on Saturday swarmed the se of an LGBT ftival the pal of the untry of Geia, vandalizg the stage, settg fir and lootg the event’s Geian Interr Mister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze said participants the Tbilisi Pri Ft were safely evacuated om the scene. Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month.

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. LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer.

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.

GAY PRI

New Orleans holds ftivals for Southern Dence, Mardi Gras, Pri Ft, Halloween and more, brgg everyone together: gay, lbian, bisexual transgenr and tersex. * gay rights festival *

New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days.

GAY RIGHTS' OPPONENTS STORM TBILISI PRI FTIVAL, FORCG S NCELLATNTBILISI [GEIA], JULY 9 (ANI): THE ANISERS OF A PRI FTIVAL THE GEIAN PAL OF TBILISI HAD TO NCEL , SAYG THAT POLICE WERE UNABLE TO STOP VLENT DISPTNS BY FAR-RIGHT GROUPS WH TI TO RSIA, REPORTED CNN.POLICE AND ANTI-LGBTQ MONSTRATORS CLASHED LISI WONRLAND, AN EVENTS VENUE OUTSI TBILISI, WHERE THE CLOSED EVENT WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE PLACE, ACRDG TO GEIAN PUBLIC BROADSTER FIRST CHANNEL.TBILISI PRI, THE FTIVAL'S ANISERS, SAID A TWEET THAT THEY WERE "PELLED" TO NCEL THE EVENT AND "EVACUATE" THE FTIVAL TERRORY.TBILISI PRI SAID, "THE MISTRY OF INTERR OF GEIA ONCE AGA NEGLECTED TO PROTECT OM VLENT FAR-RIGHT GROUPS AND ALLOWED THE MOBS TO PREVENT OM EXERCISG OUR EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND ASSEMBLY EVEN PRIVATE SETTGS," AS PER CNN.CONFLICTS BETWEEN ANTI-LGBTQ MONSTRATORS AND POLICE OFFICERS WERE PTURED ON MERA BY GEIAN ACTIVIST CHANNELS WHILE THEY WERE LISI WONRLAND'S FTIVAL AREA. ANTI-PRI MONSTRATORS WERE ALSO SEEN VIOS SETTG PRI FLAGS ON FIRE.TBILISI PRI CLAIMS THAT THE RSIAN-AFFILIATED, FAR-RIGHT GROUP ALT INFO, WHICH THEY ACCED OF DISPTG THE EVENT, WAS ORCHTRATED AND ORDATED BY THE GEIAN ERNMENT.THE GEIAN INTERR MISTRY STATED A STATEMENT ON FRIDAY THAT "APPROPRIATE MEASUR" WERE BEG TAKEN TO ENSURE THE "SAFE FORMAT" OF THE EVENT ON SATURDAY AND "TO PROTECT THE EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND ASSEMBLY OF EACH PERSON."ACRDG TO FIRST CHANNEL, AS QUOTED BY CNN, SHALVA PAPUASHVILI, THE SPEAKER OF THE GEIAN PARLIAMENT, EMPHASISED THE ERNMENT'S NMNATN OF ANY ACTS OF VLENCE ON SATURDAY.ACRDG TO PAPUASHVILI, THORI HANDLED THE SUATN AND AVOID JURG FTIVAL ATTEN, REPORTED CNN. (ANI) !FUNCTN(D,I){IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");;";VAR W=D.GETELEMENTBYID(I);(J);}}(DOCUMENT,"POCKET-BTN-JS");GAY RIGHTS' OPPONENTS STORM TBILISI PRI FTIVAL, FORCG S NCELLATNGAY RIGHTS' OPPONENTS STORM TBILISI PRI FTIVAL, FORCG S NCELLATN

Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * gay rights festival *

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. A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held.

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.

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Altogether, ’s the perfect settg for the livelit of gay cultur. The LGBTQ muny tak the spotlight at ftivals all year long, wh Southern Dence over Labor Day weekend attractg more than 125, 000 revelers to what’s e to be known as Gay Mardi Gras.

Paras, stum, drag shows and themed parti abound durg Dence, then aga they’re a part of the cy’s Pri Ft, Mardi Gras, Halloween ftivi and even Easter, where the Gay Easter Para is one of three the French Quarter. The Sats and Sners Lerary Ftival tak a more studied approach, brgg the gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and tersex lerati together for three days of spired mgs. “Why don’t they have more gay villas, ” Whe said, “I liked wrg Ernte.

MOSW BANS GAY RIGHTS PARA ON EUROVISN DAY

Mosw has banned a gay para planned to ci wh s hostg of the Eurovisn Song Contt bee will "stroy morals" the pal, a spokman for the cy's mayor said Thursday. * gay rights festival *

Whe, who liv New York, was a -founr of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and of the 1980s queer wrers group The Vlet Quill.

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Gay Events & Parti. The bt gui to gay dance parti, gay pris and other LGBT events USA, Europe and Asia. Updated regularly. * gay rights festival *

“Whether ’s evotive pictn of gay life durg the tumultuo 1980s, pastakgly rearched bgraphy or elegant memoir, Whe’s work stands out across s as s ronance … for a multu of voted rears.

LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL

) Whe has been lled the “godfather of gay Amerin lerature, ” Prceton Alumni Weekly has reported. “I’m workg now on a sex memoir about the lov of my life, ” Whe, who 1977 -wrote wh Charl Silverste, “The Joy of Gay Sex, ” said.

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Gay rights' opponents storm Tbilisi Pri ftival, forcg s ncellatn .

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