This June, we explored the evolutn of the word “pri” and how beme nnected wh the morn gay rights movement.
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I FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS — BUT TRANS ACTIVISTS HAVE STROYED THE MEANG OF PRI
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. * the meaning of the gay pride *
The origal pri flag was created the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, iend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California. The history of Pri Los Angel dat back to 1970 when was anized as a polil backlash agast police persecutn of gays and lbians.
Gays and lbians marched solidary, mandg that cy officials and police partments leave them to their peace—their safe gatherg plac.
Not long ago, rporate volvement or sponsorship of a gay event would have been a kiss of ath. Th, some say, society is growg towards a homogenizatn that dissolv the once protective enclav like L. First, a handful, then a hundred—all bee a few trepid souls dared to take to the streets sayg, Gay is okay.
GAY PRI
I’m old enough to have been active gay rights when you uld be arrted some Amerin jurisdictns for a kiss. The sponsorships were lculated acts, predited on the termatn the pani volved would w more gay ctomers than lose anti-gay ctomers. Why should gays ntue to be sgled out, even for the purpose of beg celebrated?
Then there’s this: Pri Month isn’t jt about gays anymore. It’s about the whole “LGBTQI+” crowd — a “muny” most gays never asked to jo and whose guidg iology mak most of scratch our heads nfn.
Ined, we’re the odd posn of seeg what ed to be our movement -opted by activists whose wacky theori about the nature of genr renr such labels as male and female, gay and straight, utterly meangls. Why, then, are major firms — the kd that, years ago, were reluctant to dip their to too early to the still-chilly waters of the gay-rights movement — phg this creepy new stuff so eagerly? And they learned ’s ol to be “queer” — which has nothg to do wh beg gay but means, rather, that one’s inty is, some way, tensn wh mastream norms.