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CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25. Every June, Pri Month memorat the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan — a “tippg pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat, ” acrdg to the Library of Congrs. Some wns acunts say Johnson was a lear of the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when patrons of a Greenwich Village bar risted a police raid and sparked the morn gay rights movement.
Followg the raid, Johnson and others — cludg Sylvia Rivera, a Latx gay and transgenr rights activist who passed away 2002— led a number of protts agast the raid. Wilson beme the first openly gay actor playg an openly gay role on seri televisn for his role as Rickie Vasquez on the 90's classic "My So Called Life. Members of the LGBT muny, along wh lol and feral officials, gathered at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn on Monday to dite the se as the first natnal monument to gay rights.
The first march was anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) - a group first formed the US, who wanted to take a stand agast 1970, the group cid to hold s first para, on the one year anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn 1969 - where LGBT+ patrons had been targeted by the New York Police Department. Throughout the para, there will also be a few performanc across stag certa are the different stag:• Trafalgar Square Stage Mic om: Wt End Cast of SIX the Mil, Jahan, Kgs Elltt, Wners of Pri's Got Talent 2023, Homoparody, Jack Hawt, Stars Louis III, Dylan & the Moon, Ida Menzel, Todrick Hall and Adam Lambert.