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.
Contents:
- GAY PRI
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
- D.C. GAY UPLE ROBBED, PISTOL WHIPPED BUT U.S. ATTORNEY HAS YET TO PROSECUTE
GAY PRI
To celebrate and support the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, other dimensns of genr inty and alli) muny and honor the history of the LBGTQ+ movement. Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname 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, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood.
Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).
Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march.
The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e. “There’s no greater reward than dog for the ltle Black gay boy who has someone to look up to now bee we didn’t have those people to look up to, ” says Phipps, reuntg a movg past experience where a preteen boy lled the duo his hero after seeg them perform. (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) Through the Freaky Boiz’s high-energy live performanc and slick raps over stmentals sure to make you dance, they’re rvg their own lane hip-hop and treatg dienc to mic that highlights Black gay joy, datg adventur and wo and empowerg antiexploatn bops tailor-ma for the digal age like “Cash App.
GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
”“They’re tryg to teach kids that beg gay is wrong and that’s phg 50 years backwards om the work of people who started the Pri para like Marsha P.
Jt the Facts provis rmatn and rourc for prcipals, tors and school personnel who nont sensive issu volvg gay, lbian, and bisexual stunts.
The Trevor Project is a natnal anizatn providg crisis terventn and suici preventn servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng (LGBTQ) young people unr 25. Jt the Facts provis rmatn and rourc for prcipals, tors and school personnel who nont sensive issu volvg gay, lbian and bisexual stunts.
D.C. GAY UPLE ROBBED, PISTOL WHIPPED BUT U.S. ATTORNEY HAS YET TO PROSECUTE
“Bullied” is a documentary film signed to help admistrators, teachers and unselors create a safer school environment for all stunts, not jt those who are gay and lbian. For olr generatns of LGBTQ folks, brought back shockwav remiscent of the ighteng early days of the AIDS epimic, when gay people were left to re for each other while no one else, cludg the ernment, mood for Pri is ually bright and cheery, but s origs are anythg but.