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Contents:
- MEMPHIS (MID-SOUTH GAY) PRI 2019
- MISSISSIPPI OFFICIALS VOTE TO ALLOW SEND GAY PRI PARA
- DID STARKVILLE LEARN S LSON? CY OFFICIALS VOTE ON 2019 GAY PRI PARA PERM
MEMPHIS (MID-SOUTH GAY) PRI 2019
On the nservative Gulf Coast, Ocean Sprgs be first cy regnizg gay pri month for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr equaly Mississippi. * mississippi gay pride 2019 *
Nearly 30 years ago, Ocean Sprgs was the se for Mississippi's first Pri para and march to celebrate lbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgenr, and queer people. Well known are the Stonewall Rts New York morng on June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a popular bar for gay and transgenr people livg Greenwich Village. "Ivey se the ton the natn's Gay Rights Movement.
Senate repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " allowg gay and lbian people to serve openly the U.
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MISSISSIPPI OFFICIALS VOTE TO ALLOW SEND GAY PRI PARA
* mississippi gay pride 2019 *
”On Monday, Mayor Shea Dobson signed a proclamatn clarg that “the Cy appreciat the cultural, civic, and enomic ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, pl (LGBTQ+) muny which strengthens our social welfare. His grandfather, Roland Dobson, found one of New Orleans’ early gay Mardi Gras krew 1969.
“I’ve always supported the gay muny, ” Dobson said an terview wh the Sun Herald last June. In early 1993, Emerson, the anizer of the pri march Ocean Sprgs, placed a small newspaper advertisement to ve people to a meetg at his home to discs a gay and lbian muny center.
DID STARKVILLE LEARN S LSON? CY OFFICIALS VOTE ON 2019 GAY PRI PARA PERM
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The send year was a ltle easier for anizers of a gay pri para a Mississippi llege town. It took a protracted standoff that clud a lawsu before Starkville's elected officials permted a gay pri para earlier this year. Tuday, alrman voted 4-3 to approve 2019's applitn. The Commercial Dispatch reports three alrmen say they don't thk the cy should spend on -kd servic for any paras, also votg Tuday agast a perm for a Mart Luther Kg Jr. march. Two opponents are Ain Amerin. Alrmen origally rejected the Starkville Pri perm on a 4-3 vote last year, but Alrman David Ltle abstaed om a send vote, allowg Mayor Lynn Spill to break the tie favor of the para perm. This year, Ltle voted for the perm. ___ Informatn om: The Commercial Dispatch, * mississippi gay pride 2019 *
Growg up the early 1990s, Fayard remembers hearg adults talk about how LGBTQ advot were tryg to “have this big gay downtown Ocean Sprgs, ” when they were actually tryg to tablish a muny center where people uld get rourc and support. On June 28, 1969, placloth police officers raid one of the most popular gay bars New York Cy, the Stonewall Inn, wh a warrant thorizg the vtigatn of illegal alhol terrogated patrons and employe, and all “cross-drsers” were orred taed.
“Vengeance vented agast the source of reprsn— gay bars, bts, kids victimized and exploed by the mafia and the ps, ” wrote an unintified reporter an unrground publitn lled The Rat Subterranean the next week, thoands of LGBTQ people and supporters monstrated throughout New York next year, activists memorated the event wh the untry’s first gay pri march and week. “Many new activists nsir the Stonewall Uprisg the birth of the gay liberatn movement, ” one historian wrote 1972. “Certaly was the birth of gay pri of a massive sle.
June 25: Gay Pri Kickoff Party at SIPPSDrag performanc, specials and giveaways all night at SIPPS for those ag 18 and up. Anthony Hale is a gay Hip-Hop Rerdg Artist, songwrer and creative director om Biloxi, Mississippi.