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Panda Dulce was jt about to beg her Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday San Lorenzo, Calif., when a group of eight to 10 men marched to the library yellg homophobic and transphobic slurs. “That is what sr me the most—what happened [] San Lorenzo is merely the most recent lk of premedated homophobic and transphobic vlence, ” she said. A New York Cy police officer grabs a youth by the hair as another officer clubs a young man durg a nontatn Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march New York on Aug.
A police raid at the Stonewall Inn 1969 set off the morn gay rights movement. In terviews wh NPR, several evoked the June 2016 shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando where 49 people were killed. And Colorado November, five people were killed and several jured when a gunman shot them si a gay nightclub.
It’s basic human rights, " Walker IT STARTEDJune has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement sce New York Cy's first Pri march — then dubbed the “Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day” march — on June 28, event marked an act of fiance om the year before, a 1969 uprisg at New York Cy's Stonewall Inn. After a police raid at the gay bar, a crowd partly led by trans women of lor channeled their anger to nont thori.
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“(Those bills) renewed the fire unr all of to realize that our rights are not guaranteed, ” said Joe Brown, one of the owners of popular Nashville gay club Play Dance Bar along wh several other LGBTQ-iendly bs town. Alexia Noelle Paris is ed to lip syncg, leapg to spls and generally leavg dienc slack-jawed wh her acrobatic drag performanc near-daily: The Nashville queen is a regular at lol bars like Play and T Roof, and this year, she’s has been a gut on gay untry crooner Orville Peck’s North Amerin tour. In late June, the Castro Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Cultural District (CQCD) San Francis voted to remend to the Castro Merchants, the bs associatn that has jurisdictn over the flagpol, that replace the origal Pri flag Harvey Milk Plaza wh a new versn of the flag that’s more clive of Black, brown, and transgenr members of the LGBTQ muny.
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