Why do we celebrate Gay Pri Month and why do still matter? - The Diversy Tst

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• LONDON PRI PARA: HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
• GAY PRI
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LONDON PRI PARA: HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

On 28 June, 1969 police raid the Stonewall Inn – a gay club Greenwich Village New York rulted bar staff, patrons and other lols rtg the streets, llg for safe spac for LGBTQ+ people to exprs their sexualy whout by black trans bisexual woman Marsha P Johnson, there were six straight days of followg year, bisexual activist Brenda Howard Gay Pri Week and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para.

Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians. In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians.

Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy. By the time the Stonewall Rts end on July 2, 1969, the gay rights movement went om beg a ge issue largely ignored by policians and the media to ont-page news Gay Pri ParaOne year later, durg the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, activists New York Cy marched through the streets of Manhattan memoratn of the uprisg. The march, anized by the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Umbrella Commtee, was named the Christopher Street Liberatn Day time, that celebratn me to be simply known as the Gay Pri Para.

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March and paras also took place that June Chigo, Los Angel and San the years, gay pri events have spread om large ci to smaller towns and villag worldwi—even plac where reprsn and vlence agast gays and lbians are monplace.

SIGN UP NOW! DONATE NOW! SE NAVIGATN HOMEABOUT ABOUT USMEET THE TEAM IMPACT REPORTSTTIMONIALSWORK WITH USTRAG ACCSIBLE INFORMATN STANDARDSACHIEVG CULTURAL COMPETENCEAUTISM & NRODIVERSY THE WORKPLACEBLACK, ASIAN AND MORY ETHNIC TALENT AND LEARSHIP DEVELOPMENTBUILDG RILIENCE AGAST ADVERSYDIGAL TRAG & EVENTSDISABILY AWARENS TRAG: INCLN AND EQUALYDIVERSY PRACTICE – WORKG WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANS (LGBT) COMMUNIDIVERSY MENOPSEEQUALY, DIVERSY, EQUY AND INCLNGENR AWARENSIT’S ABOUT RACE – CHALLENGG RACIAL BIAS AND RACISM PRACTICEIT’S ABOUT RACE 2IT’S ABOUT RACE 3MANAGG AND MIGATG BIAS THE WORKPLACEMENOPSE AWARENS AT WORKMENOPSE CHAMPN TRAGMEN’S MENTAL HEALTHMENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEG THE WORKPLACEPRACTICE INCLIVYRACE AND GENRSAFEGUARDG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLESPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT!SPORTG MDSET TO BUILD EFFECTIVE TEAMSTRANSGENR AWARENS TRAGUNNSC BIASUNRSTANDG DOMTIC VLENCE AND ABETTIMONIALSTRAG FAQSSERVIC ACCSIBILY AUDAUDSCARE SERVICDOMTIC VLENCE AND ABE TRAG AND CONSULTANCYFILMMAKGHATE CRIME & DISCRIMATNREARCH & DEVELOPMENTREARCH REPORTSVOICE & INFLUENCEDIGAL EVENTS & TRAGWELLBEG SERVICYOUNG PEOPLE’S SERVICNEWS RECENT NEWSNEWSLETTERSBLOGSEVENTSPODSTCLIENTS & PARTNERSLKSCONTACTWHY DO WE CELEBRATE GAY PRI MONTH AND WHY DO STILL MATTER?

The atmosphere at the events n range om r, rnivalque celebratns to strint polil prott to solemn memorials for those lost to AIDS or homophobic June 2000, Print Bill Clton officially signated June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month, regnn of the Stonewall Rts and gay activism throughout the years. A more-clive name was chosen 2009 by Print Barack Obama: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri origs of Gay Pri Month were also honored by Obama when, 2016, he created the Stonewall Natnal Monument, a 7. 7-acre around the Stonewall Inn where the morn gay rights movement, Gay Pri paras many ci are enormo celebratns: The events Sao Plo, Sydney, New York Cy, Madrid, Taipei and Toronto routely attract up to 5 ln Pri Month has grown populary across the globe, cricism of the events has grown, too.

Many early anizers now cry the mercial fluence and rporate nature of Pri paras—pecially when those rporatns make donatns to policians who vote agast gay, lbian and transgenr Pri events are nohels seen as val protts agast reprsn and isolatn plac such as Serbia, Turkey and Rsia, where Pri paras have been met wh antigay vlence. 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.

The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement. In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns.