‘Gay Pri was vented here’: The origs of Pri the Tw Ci

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY PRIGAY PRI
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

GAY PRI

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. LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. 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.

A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held. 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.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAY PRIGAY PRI

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.

The history of Pri Los Angel dat back to 1970 when was anized as a polil backlash agast police persecutn of gays and lbians. Gays and lbians marched solidary, mandg that cy officials and police partments leave them to their peace—their safe gatherg plac. Not long ago, rporate volvement or sponsorship of a gay event would have been a kiss of ath.

Th, some say, society is growg towards a homogenizatn that dissolv the once protective enclav like L.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

First, a handful, then a hundred—all bee a few trepid souls dared to take to the streets sayg, Gay is okay. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”.

For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive. Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).

They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”. The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history.