Gay Pri 2015: All the Victori We’re Celebratg This Year | Vogue

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• HAPPY GAY PRI WEEK! ALL THE VICTORI WE’RE CELEBRATG THIS YEAR

HAPPY GAY PRI WEEK! ALL THE VICTORI WE’RE CELEBRATG THIS YEAR

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2015. But we are also remd that we are not tly equal until every person is afford the same rights and opportuni -- that when one of experienc discrimatn, affects all of -- and that our journey is not plete until our lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law. We are updatg our Natnal HIV/AIDS Strategy to better addrs the disproportnate burn HIV has on muni of gay and bisexual men and transgenr women.

Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month, we celebrate the proud legacy LGBT dividuals have woven to the fabric of our Natn, we honor those who have fought to perfect our Unn, and we ntue our work to build a society where every child grows up knowg that their untry supports them, is proud of them, and has a place for them exactly as they are. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2015 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month. It's not even past, ” he certaly wasn’t talkg about the state of the gay rights movement 2015.

The hio past is creasgly ad and buried, Bill, and we are dancg on s homophobic grave! Not jt the stupendo advanc gay marriage—legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia! Legal the entire untry of Ireland, a wondro and somewhat stunng turn of events—but a host of other LGBTQ triumphs as sure, Calyn is on the ver of Vany Fair, which we love—but also, Transparent has rocked the TV world, Laverne Cox ntu her rise to super-stardom, openly gay Sam Smh won four top Grammys, Hozier had a huge h wh 'Take Me to Church" (a powerful mand for equal rights) and the marvelo mil lbian-bildungsroman Fun Home swept the Tonys.

Later this year, Julianne Moore and Ellen Page will play lovers Freeheld; Eddie Redmayne will tra Stephen Hawkg for the part of a transgenr woman The Danish the legal ont, last July Print Obama signed an executive orr banng workplace discrimatn agast lns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr employe of feral ntractors. )As Pri Sunday approach, we awa wh near hysteril anticipatn the Supreme Court’s imment cisn on whether all stat will be required to rpect each other’s laws when to marriage, or maybe—we n dream—the urt will le that gay marriage should be legal every state. Durg the Pri, different march and llective events are anized to make the fight for equaly and digny of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people visible.

Followg the Stonewall cint, gay rints of Greenwich Village created different activism groups to build safe spac for the muny. Durg the years that followed, other ci anized march, makg this day a day for the vditn of a sector of the populatn persecuted, crimalized and victim of homophobic vlence, transphobia and biphobiaSadly, the suatn of the group has not gaed ground terms of human rights all the terrori.

An example of this is the Organizg Commtee of the LGBTI State Pri, ma up of the State Feratn of Lbians, Gays, Trans and Bisexuals (FELGTB), COGAM, LGTB + Collective of Madrid and the Associatn of Compani and Profsnals for the LGTBI llective of Madrid (AEGAL) who are already preparg telematic activi for the ocsn. Jo on the Pri March through the Wt Village or giant parti at your favore gay bars wh the LGBTQ+ muny! From annual LGTBQ+ Pri events like Pri Ft and Pri the Park to meet-ups at the bt Chigo gay bars and drag bnch, you'll fd plenty of avenu for honorg queer life throughout the cy, both June and throughout the rt of the year.