Catch up wh the latt celebri of tert the gay muny - gay actors, micians, mols, athlet, TV personali and more.
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- ‘GAY. STRAIGHT. IT DO NOT MATTER’: AMY GRANT TAK HER LGBTQ+ SUPPORT ONE STEP FURTHER IN NEW INTERVIEW
- RAVEN-SYMONé SHAR BETIFUL WAY SHE CELEBRAT HER GAY PRI WH WIFE MIRANDA
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
‘GAY. STRAIGHT. IT DO NOT MATTER’: AMY GRANT TAK HER LGBTQ+ SUPPORT ONE STEP FURTHER IN NEW INTERVIEW
For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked artists about the realy of beg out micians hard rock/metal and the state of LGBTQAI acceptance the genre. * gay pride interview *
From Florida’s so-lled “don’t say gay” bill and Alabama’s ban on genr-affirmg healthre, a total of 28 stat have troduced more than 300 anti-LGBTQ+ measur that seek to turn back the clock on our hard-earned eedoms and lim our abily to live almost feels like the past 60 years of activism, heroism and radil tn by queer folks have been undone. And Reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene recently tweeted that she will be “troducg a bill to make illegal for children to be exposed to Drag Queen performanc” misguid efforts to monize LGBTQ+ folks reek of s-old homophobia and transphobia that have placed a mented time warp and tapulted back to an era before Stonewall and before the advancement of the morn queer liberatn, even though buyg a rabow clutch om Coach might provi some momentary athetic pleasure, the way forward the midst of such rampant and vic attacks on queer and trans liv is through llective anizg, not llectg Pri merch.
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RAVEN-SYMONé SHAR BETIFUL WAY SHE CELEBRAT HER GAY PRI WH WIFE MIRANDA
Disney Channel star Raven-Symoné has opened up about the betiful way she celebrat her gay pri every day wh wife Miranda. * gay pride interview *
We all know why, bee of homophobia. She's gay. And if we hadn't done that, nobody would remember the Stonewall today, " said Karla Jay, the first woman chair of the Gay Liberatn Front and a retired women's and genr studi profsor at Pace Universy.
In 1969, the NYPD ed billy clubs agast protters outsi The Stonewall In, a gay bar.
' " The followg year, June 28, 1970, people gathered jt outsi the Stonewall Inn for the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
There were gay groups om Washgton, D. And they had signs on long woon sticks that said "Gay Pri" and "I am a lbian and I am betiful. Gays were jog every three blocks.
Gay activists Lilli Vcenz and Cliff Wt produced a documentary of that day, terviewg people anonymoly. The documentary Gay and Proud tells the story of the 1970 Gay Pri Para New York Cy. They chanted thgs like, "Say loud, gay is proud" and "Out of the closets and to the streets.
They had a "gay-" stead, siar to the "be-s" of the time.