Giftg Your Gay Lover Flowers: The Do's, Don'ts, & Mt Do - queer voic

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• GIFTG YOUR GAY LOVER FLOWERS: THE DO’S, DON’TS, & MT DO
• NOSEGAY

GIFTG YOUR GAY LOVER FLOWERS: THE DO’S, DON’TS, & MT DO

Pri month has s roots the memoratn of the Stonewall rts June of 1969 after police raid a New York Cy gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. Eight years later, a rabow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker ma s but at the San Francis event to symbolize Gay Pri and beme an inic symbol.

Later the 1920s, drag queens like Jean Mal helped popularize gay-iendly bars major ci, a trend that historian Gee Chncey lled “the Pansy Craze.

NOSEGAY

Whereas the late 19th century rtricted gay male activy to the seedy red-light district unr the elevated tra of the Bowery, wh an even ls visible lbian life largely rtricted to private salons for upper-class women, prohibn allowed the first emergence of a visible gay and lbian life.