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- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
- GAY PRI
- GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
* is gay pride month a national holiday *
Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought — and ntue to fight — for full equaly. BIDEN JR., 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 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month. Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Pri Month, we reflect on the progrs we have ma as a Natn the fight for jtice, cln, and equaly while reaffirmg our mment to do more to support LGBTQI+ rights at home and abroad.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
I am honored by the service of the first openly gay Cabet Secretary and the first transgenr person nfirmed by the Senate and to have been able to tablish the first Whe Hoe Genr Policy Council. BIDEN JR., 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 2022 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Pri Month.
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. 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. Gay Pri Week and March, was meant to give the muny a chance to gather together to "...
GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH
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:. Gay and Proud. Footage of one of the earlit Gay Pri monstratn.