Gay Day. All About 'Natnal Gay Day' On The 26th Of June.
Contents:
- LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
- WHEN IS NATNAL GAY DAY?
- TODAY IS A GAY DAY!
LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
LGBTQ people are flockg to Florida this weekend to take part Gay Days, Disney's Pri celebratn. * is it a gay day today *
Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month. The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement.
LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi.
WHEN IS NATNAL GAY DAY?
New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days. 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. A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held.
TODAY IS A GAY DAY!
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.
Baker, a proment gay rights activist, gave a nod to the strip of the Amerin flag but drew spiratn om the rabow to reflect the many groups wh the gay muny.
Pri Month is observed June to honor the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, a touchstone event LGBTQ the late 1960s, beg openly gay was largely prohibed most plac.