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GAY PRI
* lesbian gay pride march *
NEW YORK — Thoands of effive marchers danced to club mic New York Cy streets Sunday as bubbl and nfetti raed down, and fellow revelers om Toronto to San Francis cheered through Pri Month’s grand York’s boistero throng strolled and danced down Fifth Avenue to Greenwich Village, cheerg and wavg rabow flags to memorate the 1969 Stonewall uprisg, where a police raid on a gay bar triggered days of protts and lnched the morn movement for LGBTQ+ some people whooped up celebratn, many were mdful of the growg nservative untermovement, cludg new laws banng genr-affirmg re for transgenr children.
Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).
In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year). Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore.
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * lesbian gay pride march *
In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag. As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march. The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e.
The Stonewall Uprisg began on June 28, 1969, when police raid the Stonewall Inn, a proment gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. To put together Pri events was om cisgenr, gay whe men. But even before the first Pri paras, mblgs of the gay rights movement were happeng all over the untry.
In 1950, for example, activist Harry Hay found the Mattache Society, the first natnal gay rights anizatn. In 1966, the Mattache Society staged a “sip-” at a Greenwich Village bar after the New York Liquor Authory banned servg gay patrons bee they were “disorrly, ” PBS wrote. As the LGBTQ rights movement grew, the muny turned away om outdated terms like transsexual and homosexual to transgenr, gay and lbian.