As the 2015 Pri season ends, we look at why Pri events are still so important for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people and activists across the world.
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- WHY GAY PRI MATTERS
- LET’S REMEMBER WHY GAY PRI STILL MATTERS
- WHY GAY PRI STILL MATTERS AND ISN'T JT ABOUT PARAS AND PARTI
- GAY PRI
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* why gay pride matters *
As the 2015 Pri season ends, we look at why Pri events are still so important for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people and activists across the world.
Homophobic and transphobic hate crim have a vastatg impact on LGBTI muni. Pris are an opportuny to challenge homophobic and transphobic legislatn. However, some hope is emergg, as this year over 350 people Sat-Petersburg were able to celebrate the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia.
WHY GAY PRI MATTERS
A short treatise on why gay pri matters. They're not jt self-dulgent parti but important cultural events the history of gay culture * why gay pride matters *
Change is possible, even when homophobic and transphobic attus exist.
Print Bill Clton first signated as Gay and Lbian Pri Month on June 11, 1999, wh Print Barack Obama proclaimg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month 10 years later.
LET’S REMEMBER WHY GAY PRI STILL MATTERS
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. * why gay pride matters *
We celebrate June to ci wh the talyst of the Gay Liberatn Movement that was the Stonewall Uprisg. In the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, police raid a popular gay bar N.
She was a Black trans woman celebratg her 25th birthday at the time of the rts and a tour force the gay muny. Stormé DeLarverie was a gay rights activist and drag performer who was also at Stonewall when was raid that night. 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.
WHY GAY PRI STILL MATTERS AND ISN'T JT ABOUT PARAS AND PARTI
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.
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.
GAY PRI
The silhouette of a person seen through a semi-transparent LGBT+ pri flag which they are holdg up ont of themselv the year, throughout June, there are gay pri ftivals and events across the world. The weekend of rtg is acknowledged as the birthplace of the morn gay liberatn movement.
It was the first-time queer muni fought back agast the regular police raids on the cy’s gay bars and clubs.