In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
Contents:
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr pri month, and the rabow flag -- that inic symbol for gay pri -- is flyg om Athens to San Francis to Brazil. Enter artist Gilbert Baker, the man who first me up wh the flag's sign some 34 years ago. * who made gay parade *
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. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians.
MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
* who made gay parade *
In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians.
Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy.
Stonewall RtsAs was mon practice many ci, the New York Police Department would ocsnally raid bars and rtrants where gays and lbians were known to gather.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
By the time the Stonewall Rts end on July 2, 1969, the gay rights movement went om beg a ge issue largely ignored by policians and the media to ont-page news Gay Pri ParaOne year later, durg the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, activists New York Cy marched through the streets of Manhattan memoratn of the uprisg.
The march, anized by the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Umbrella Commtee, was named the Christopher Street Liberatn Day time, that celebratn me to be simply known as the Gay Pri Para. Acrdg to activist Craig Schoonmaker, “I thored the word ‘pri’ for gay pri … [my] first thought was ‘Gay Power.
LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
’ I didn’t like that, so proposed gay pri. ”The march, which took place on June 28, 1970, is now nsired the untry’s first gay pri para.
March and paras also took place that June Chigo, Los Angel and San the years, gay pri events have spread om large ci to smaller towns and villag worldwi—even plac where reprsn and vlence agast gays and lbians are monplace.