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.
Contents:
- GAY PRI
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
GAY PRI
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month is currently celebrated each year the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprisg was a tippg pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
In the Uned Stat the last Sunday June was ially celebrated as "Gay Pri Day, " but the actual day was flexible.
The purpose of the memorative month is to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals have had on history lolly, natnally, and ternatnally.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Gay Pri Week and March, was meant to give the muny a chance to gather together to "... Memorate the Christopher Street Uprisgs of last summer which thoands of homosexuals went to the streets to monstrate agast centuri of abe... Om ernment hostily to employment and hog discrimatn, Mafia ntrol of Gay bars, and anti-Homosexual laws" (Christopher Street Liberatn Day Commtee Fliers, Frankl Kameny Papers).
The ncept behd the ial Pri march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO), who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn (1965-1969) known as the "Remr Day Pickets, " at Inpennce Hall Philalphia. At the ERCHO Conference November 1969, the 13 homophile anizatns attendance voted to pass a rolutn to anize a natnal annual monstratn, to be lled Christopher Street Liberatn Day.
As members of the Mattache Society of Washgton, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vcenz participated the discsn, planng, and promotn of the first Pri along wh activists New York Cy and other homophile groups belongg to ERCHO. Watch documentary footage of the first Pri march, "Gay and Proud, " a documentary by activist Lilli Vcenz:.