Gay Pri | History, Flag, & Facts | Branni

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• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• GAY PRI

GAY PRI CALENDAR

Origally, march took place on the last Sunday June as Gay Pri Day or Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day, but later spread out across the month and ntued as a tradn over the past half-century until arrived at you! Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month. 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.

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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. 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.

Jo on the Pri March through the Wt Village or giant parti at your favore gay bars wh the LGBTQ+ muny! You n also expect to see some ntgents that march nearly every LGBT Pri para, such as Parents, Friends, and Fai of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) and People wh AIDS. You n check out an onle Gay Pri lendar to fd Pri events near and far.

Our gay events gui ntas a full round-up of the biggt and.