Pri Month honors lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people—and the history, culture, and ntributns of the people and their muni.
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Celebratg s 16th year as a Ferally-regnized month of pri, Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month origated the U.S. 1994. , Read news articl posted by the Defense Logistics Agency. * when did gay month start *
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. 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.
Acrdg to History, was mon at the time for police to raid bars whout liquor licens — which, not cintally, were oftentim gay bars, as New York’s liquor thory tend to reject liquor license applitns om gay bars, as per NYCdata.
For the reasons, activists see Pri as a prott, not a Getty ImagAn archival photo of an LGBT para gog through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971. Acrdg to the Library of Congrs, origal fliers promotg the very first Pri March stated that the march aimed to "memorate the Christopher Street Uprisgs of last summer which thoands of homosexuals went to the streets to monstrate agast centuri of abe...
GAY PRI MONTH: HOW DID START, WHO CELEBRAT AND WHERE AND WHEN DO THE EVENTS TAKE PLACE?
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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.
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. * when did gay month start *
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. 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.