Gay Pri 2023 NYC promis to be another big party, wh the Pri March, virtual events, Pri Ft and more.
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GAY PRI CALENDAR
Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world. * gay pride parade day *
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. 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. 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.
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. Durg a Whe Hoe briefg on May 31, Print Joe Bin proclaimed June 2022 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex Pri Month.
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
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Siar raids on gay-iendly bs had been occurrg for s, but Stonewall was one of the first tim when the patrons fought back. A diverse crowd of lbians, gay men and transgenr women, many of whom were people of lor, clashed wh the police, threw bottl and refed to be timidated. This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25.
A small group of 200 people marked the Rose Cy’s first public and outdoor Gay Pri celebratn, the South Park Blocks near Portland State Universy. It was renamed 1982 Lbian and Gay Pri Week, wh more than 2, 000 men and women takg to the streets of downtown 1991 para was the largt history at that pot, wh more than 6, 000 marchers, cludg supporters om small Oregon towns. The highlight of the celebratns is arguably the Portland Gay Pri Para, which will this year kick off on Saturday, June 15 at 11:30am.
Runng om 12pm to 4pm, you n look forward to a gay ferry trip, along wh ol tun and plenty of new people to meet.