A Proclamatn on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month, 2021 | The Whe Hoe

Contents:

• I’M A GAY MAN. HERE’S WHY I DON’T CELEBRATE PRI MONTH
• LOL GAY MAN LOOKS BACK AT ONTAR’S FIRST PRI MONTH EVENT
• GAY PRI
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
• ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’

I’M A GAY MAN. HERE’S WHY I DON’T CELEBRATE PRI MONTH

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.

Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians.

In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians. Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy.

LOL GAY MAN LOOKS BACK AT ONTAR’S FIRST PRI MONTH EVENT

By the time the Stonewall Rts end on July 2, 1969, the gay rights movement went om beg a ge issue largely ignored by policians and the media to ont-page news Gay Pri ParaOne year later, durg the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, activists New York Cy marched through the streets of Manhattan memoratn of the uprisg.

The march, anized by the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Umbrella Commtee, was named the Christopher Street Liberatn Day time, that celebratn me to be simply known as the Gay Pri Para.

March and paras also took place that June Chigo, Los Angel and San the years, gay pri events have spread om large ci to smaller towns and villag worldwi—even plac where reprsn and vlence agast gays and lbians are monplace. The atmosphere at the events n range om r, rnivalque celebratns to strint polil prott to solemn memorials for those lost to AIDS or homophobic June 2000, Print Bill Clton officially signated June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month, regnn of the Stonewall Rts and gay activism throughout the years.

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A more-clive name was chosen 2009 by Print Barack Obama: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri origs of Gay Pri Month were also honored by Obama when, 2016, he created the Stonewall Natnal Monument, a 7. 7-acre around the Stonewall Inn where the morn gay rights movement, Gay Pri paras many ci are enormo celebratns: The events Sao Plo, Sydney, New York Cy, Madrid, Taipei and Toronto routely attract up to 5 ln Pri Month has grown populary across the globe, cricism of the events has grown, too.

Many early anizers now cry the mercial fluence and rporate nature of Pri paras—pecially when those rporatns make donatns to policians who vote agast gay, lbian and transgenr Pri events are nohels seen as val protts agast reprsn and isolatn plac such as Serbia, Turkey and Rsia, where Pri paras have been met wh antigay vlence. New York, particular, had a le that the simple prence of someone gay or genrqueer unted as disorrly nduct, effectively outlawg gay June 28, 1969, patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a popular bar wh a diverse LGBTQ clientele, stood their ground after police raid the tablishment.

The rultg clash led to days of rts and protts, known as the Stonewall year later, on the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, thoands of people flood the streets of Manhattan the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March, regard as the first gay pri event ever. As awarens creased, more activi and events were planned throughout the month and eventually, evolved to the month-long observance, aptly named Pri 1999, Print Bill Clton officially clared June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month, settg asi the month as a time to regnize the LGBTQ muny’s achievements and support the is the symbol of Pri? Along wh readg LGBTQ-spired books or postg a meangful Pri Month quote on Instagram, you n jo any of the natnwi celebratns held throughout the month of of the largt Pri events occurs New York Cy, the birthplace of morn gay rights movement.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

Ci hostg Pri Month events this year:Baltimore: June 17 - 25, 2023Chigo: Pri Ft, June 17 - 18, 2023; Pri Para, June 25 Denver: June 24 - 25, 2023Detro: June 10 - 11, 2023Key Wt: June 7 - 11, 2023Los Angel: Var events throughout JuneNashville: June 24 - 25, 2023New Orleans: June 9 - 11, 2023Portland: June 15 - 16, 2023Provcetown, RI: June 2 - 4, 2023San Francis: June 24 - 25, 2023Seattle: June 25, 2023LGTBQ Pri Month rourcTo learn more about Pri Month or fd addnal ways to get volved, check out the followg rourc:GLAAD, a non-ernment agency found to promote LGBTQ acceptance along wh intifyg and preventg discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer, a work of stunts, fai and tn advot workg to facilate LGBTQ safety and support Equaly Feratn is a LGBTQ advocy group workg to help advance the rights of LGBTQ Natnal LGBTQ Task Force, an advocy group dited to advancg eedom, jtice and equaly for LGBTQ Library of Congrs, for history on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Pri Anti-Defamatn League, an anti-hate anizatn dited to fightg bias, extremism, discrimatn or hate. ”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny, ” the statement ntued.

Today, Two-Spired people are dividuals that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, other genred dividuals, as well as third or fourth genred dividuals who live and intify between the worlds and genrs. Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy.

There are gay people who have embraced equaly and tegrated to daily life exactly as they are, whout fear or hatn, and gay people who still believe they mt surround themselv wh a rabow flag. In the et time of our history this untry, when a Republin print is un-self-nscly gay-iendly and nservativ open their arms to like-md gay cizens, the gay Left remas unr an umbrella of self-perpetuatg fear and doom.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022

As the LGBT movement ntu to move to the Left and s opprsive characteristics grow proportn, many people happy their liv as gay dividuals will beg to unrstand what I and other gay nservativ have realized for a long time. Gays who move outsi of the limg polil boundari of the LGBT movement have to regnize that our personal sense of inty wh the culture is ours alone, but will always be fluenced by polics.

I hope my experience will one day be mon for most gay people to enjoy, and the rabow flag will be jt a remr of a time our past when culture was changg, and we had somethg to celebrate.

ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’

In a world which stunts are expelled for handg out Pri flags to prott Florida's "Don't Say Gay Bill, " the need to show support for LGTBQ+ rights—publicly as well as privately—is as important as ever. Tradnal Gay Pri Flag (Image cred: Getty Imag/Norberto Cuen)This is probably the flag you'll see most often: Six lors, apparently easier to produce than the odd-numbered seven (although other reports say was more about makg the flag easier for paras and to hang on posts).

But the "leather flag, " created by Tony DeBlase 1989, is a symbol of that muny (which clus many gay men)—black may symbolize leather, whe is pury, blue is votn, and the heart is Brotherhood Flag(Image cred: Getty Imag/grebhkovmaxim)Craig Byrn and Pl Wzkoske 1995 ma the "bear flag" for "a subculture of mascule-prentg gay, bisexual and trans men who embrace facial and body hair and may have larger bodi. 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. 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.

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.