2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• GAY-SIR á GAY PRI þANN 6. áGúST
• ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
• REYKJAVIK GAY PRI
• SãO PLO GAY PRI

GAY PRI

Reykjavik Gay Pri is filled wh excg events such as queer cis, gay walks, a fay ftival, ncerts, gallery opengs, parti and a huge dance party after the ma Reykjavik Pri Para. Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).

In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year). Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore. In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag.

As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march.

GAY-SIR á GAY PRI þANN 6. áGúST

The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e. Image source, North Country Off Grid/Youtube/via RtersImage ptn, Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene. Petersburg’s first LGBTQ Pri march sce the onslght of the Covid-19 panmic, and jt three months after Florida’s ernor signed what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

Along wh rabow hats, eye makp, clothg and flags, there were prott signs the sea of Pri revelers, cludg those that said “We say gay” and "Bans off our bodi. The measure, which crics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law, prohibs classroom stctn on genr inty and sexual orientatn Florida classrooms for stunts “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. McKeon hosted a booth where he sold water bottl, T-shirts and stickers wh “Jt Say Gay” emblazoned across the ont of each em.

In the week until the “Don’t Say Gay” law tak effect — and a moment time that for many queer people has brought a sense of unease about their future — the ever-faiar “pri as prott” rea lored how many celebrated the largt event of s kd Florida, a state that has propelled self to the center of the latt culture war. “If you’re gog to be gay anywhere Florida, St. Dpe the 90-gree heat and humidy that ntued to the early eveng hours and a smatterg of anti-gay protters holdg signs that said “J Lov You” and “How Can I Pray for You, ” patrons stayed for hours after the para, visg vendors and lol bs, and dancg North Strb Park.

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

Petersburg om Tampa, said that neher the protters nor the “Don’t Say Gay” law uld ter her. More than 50 years after the famo Stonewall rts, the only Pri Month tradn more predictable than big cy paras June are the perennial plats about the “modifitn” of the gay rights movement.

The days, the month often featur rporatns and nsumer brands participatg the celebratns, wh bright rabow packagg and gay-themed ems for sale. Claimg that a gay person needs to vote for a certa party or suate themselv on a certa pot of the iologil spectm is — to e some of today’s pop psychology terms — gatekeepg and gaslightg.

Crics often sist that rporatns’ mment to gay pri is shallow and self-servg, or that rabow-themed merchandise and advertisg durg June end up tokenizg rather than celebratg the muny. Buyg a T-shirt wh the phrase “Love Is Not a Crime” om Target won’t, on s own, change the world or end anti-gay discrimatn. Though there are historil nnectns between the gay rights movement and opposg palism, ’s a mistake for the LGBTQ muny today to embrace an anti-rporate attu.

REYKJAVIK GAY PRI

The sire to associate gay inty wh a particular part of the polil spectm don’t reflect the muny’s diversy and n actively alienate people who are not part of that polil group — at the expense of the terts of the muny as a whole. What was origally known as the “gay liberatn” movement was born out of a wi-rangg cultural ferment on the left the 1960s and early 1970s that also gave rise to the women’s liberatn, anti-war and Black power movements, a cross-pollatn among activists groups scribed Cornell Universy’s archive on the history of gay activism.

Given this background, and aid by the fact that their nservative antagonists were generally favor of ee-market enomic polici, gay rights activists durg the 1970s were associated wh a hostily toward palism, markets and rporatns. This was not entirely by flt — some gay activists were mted socialists who thought the two stggl were closely lked.

Gay historian Mart Duberman, an activist himself, readily adms that “The gay left — like every other kd of left this untry — has rarely reprented more than a small mory.

SãO PLO GAY PRI

”But that lk between gay rights and hostily toward ee markets ntu to exist for some people today.

”The actual history of gay pri and rporate Ameri, however, is much more posive and llaborative. Pani — often persuad by ternal affy groups formed by their own gay employe — implemented nondiscrimatory hirg l and extend benefs to same-sex domtic partners when virtually no natnal policians were willg to support such polici publicly. For most of the late 20th century, the private sector well outpaced the polil tablishment on gay while many early gay radils were unrstandably spic of rporate Ameri, we n now safely say that those worri were overstated — and, at tim, based on pre-existg iologil mments that had ltle to do wh sexual eedom or civil rights.

Someone who happens to be an advote for both gay rights and socialist polics is ee to try to lk those two goals, but I as a gay man livg the 21st century don’t have to accept that they are nnected.