Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world.
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- HAPPY GAY PRI WEEK! ALL THE VICTORI WE’RE CELEBRATG THIS YEAR
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- THE 8 BIGGT GAY PRI CELEBRATNS THE WORLD
HAPPY GAY PRI WEEK! ALL THE VICTORI WE’RE CELEBRATG THIS YEAR
Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights. * gay pride date 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.
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.
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March 26, 1973 - First meetg of “Parents and Friends of Gays, ” which go natnal as Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) 1982. December 15, 1973 - By a vote of 5, 854 to 3, 810, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn remov homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs the DSM-II Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs. January 9, 1978 - Harvey Milk is gurated as San Francis cy supervisor, and is the first openly gay man to be elected to a polil office California.
THE 8 BIGGT GAY PRI CELEBRATNS THE WORLD
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November 30, 1993 - Print Bill Clton signs a ary policy directive that prohibs openly gay and lbian Amerins om servg the ary, but also prohibs the harassment of “closeted” homosexuals. December 3, 1996 - Hawaii’s Judge Chang l that the state do not have a legal right to prive same-sex upl of the right to marry, makg Hawaii the first state to regnize that gay and lbian upl are entled to the same privileg as heterosexual married upl. October 25, 2006 - The New Jersey Supreme Court l that state lawmakers mt provi the rights and benefs of marriage to gay and lbian upl.
June 9, 2015 - Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announc that the Milary Equal Opportuny policy has been adjted to clu gay and lbian ary members. July 27, 2015 - Boy Suts of Ameri Print Robert Gat announc, “the natnal executive board ratified a rolutn removg the natnal rtrictn on openly gay lears and employe. The Human Rights Campaign timat that there are at least 41 openly lbian, gay and bisexual Olympians – up om 23 that participated London 2012.
From the birth of the morn gay rights movement on the streets of New York Cy to a pri ftival Brazil that unts atten by the lns. * gay pride date 2015 *
November 6, 2018 - Democratic US Reprentative Jared Polis ws the Colorado ernor’s race, beg the natn’s first openly gay man to be elected ernor. Rchie Torr and Mondaire Jon, elected to serve New York’s 15th and 17th districts, will bee the first Black men elected to Congrs who intify as gay.
June 21, 2021 - Carl Nassib, a fensive leman wh the Las Vegas Rairs, be the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay. 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.