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A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
Every summer the Uned Stat, the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny together for a monthlong celebratn of love, diversy, acceptance and unashamed self-pri.Here's everythg you need to know about LGBT Pri Month.What is LGBT Pri Month?The month is meant to regnize the sweepg impact that LGBT dividuals, advot and alli have on history the Uned Stat and around the globe, acrdg to the Library of CongrsLorenzo Soler pos for photos on the steps that are vered rabow lors for Pri Month at Frankl D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, June 14, 2019 on Roosevelt Island New York.Drew Angerer/Getty Imag, FILEWhen is ?LGBT Pri Month is celebrated every year June.The month of June was chosen for LGBT Pri Month to memorate the rts held by members of the LGBT muny agast a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy on June 28, 1969.The so-lled Stonewall rts were a "tippg pot" for the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat, acrdg to the Library of Congrs. Gilbert Baker, an Amerin artist, gay rights activist and U.S.
Army veteran, created the flag 1978 as a new symbol for the gay and lbian polil movement at the suggtn of his iends and lleagu, cludg Harvey Milk, a San Francis cy supervisor and the first openly gay elected official California. 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.