Pictur om gay pri paras held across the US and around the world this past weekend. |
Contents:
- PANSY DIVISN & GAYC/DC’S CHRIS FEEMAN SAYS PRI IS A GOOD TIME ‘TO BE ANGRY AGA’ (EXCLIVE)
- CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
PANSY DIVISN & GAYC/DC’S CHRIS FEEMAN SAYS PRI IS A GOOD TIME ‘TO BE ANGRY AGA’ (EXCLIVE)
Disabily is proment the queer and trans muny wh 30 percent of gay and bisexual men and 36 percent of lbian and bisexual women also intifyg as havg a disabily. He repeatedly said, “Informatn is power, ” and found the Cril Path Project, an HIV/AIDS rource anizatn that provid rmatn and a 24-hour hotle for the Philalphia gay muny.
Johnson, one of the most proment figur the Stonewall uprisg of 1969, was an Amerin gay liberatn activist who scribed herself as a gay person, a transvte, and a drag queen and ed she/her pronouns. Johnson was also an outspoken advote for gay rights and for the rights of psychiatric patients like herself.
CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
Among the ristance work STAR did was to ll for an end to non-nsensual psychiatric rceratns of gay, lbian and trans people.
Johnson also lled for an end to nversn therapy and other forced therapi ed to “cure” lbian, gay and trans people of their sexual and genr inti. Wh his mother, Jeanne Manford, he -found PFLAG (Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) 1973. PFLAG is the first and largt anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and fai, and alli.
In 1972, after Morty was beaten and attacked durg a prott, Jeanne Manford wrote a letter to the New York Post which she said, “I am the mother of a homosexual son. ” Soon after, she began givg terviews wh Morty and marched wh him the Gay Pri Para. Kenny Fri is a longtime gay and disabily rights activist, world-renowned poet and memoirist, who was born wh shortened and twisted legs.