Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH, 2015
- PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999
- GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 2000
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2015. But we are also remd that we are not tly equal until every person is afford the same rights and opportuni -- that when one of experienc discrimatn, affects all of -- and that our journey is not plete until our lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law.
We are updatg our Natnal HIV/AIDS Strategy to better addrs the disproportnate burn HIV has on muni of gay and bisexual men and transgenr women. Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month, we celebrate the proud legacy LGBT dividuals have woven to the fabric of our Natn, we honor those who have fought to perfect our Unn, and we ntue our work to build a society where every child grows up knowg that their untry supports them, is proud of them, and has a place for them exactly as they are. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2015 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH, 2015
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.
In the Uned Stat the last Sunday June was ially celebrated as "Gay Pri Day, " but the actual day was flexible.
PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999
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.
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.
GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 2000
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.