Why Gay Pri Still Matters And Isn't Jt About Paras And Parti | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• WHY GAY PRI STILL MATTERS AND ISN'T JT ABOUT PARAS AND PARTI
• 10 REASONS WHY GAY PRI MATTERS
• WHY GAY PRI MATTERS
• WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS
• WHY GAY PRI STILL MATTERS
• OPENLY OUT: WHY GAY PRI MATTERS
• 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 EXPERTS 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?

WHY GAY PRI STILL MATTERS AND ISN'T JT ABOUT PARAS AND PARTI

From the “Don’t Say Gay” bill Florida to Roe v Wa beg jeopardized, beg vol and movg forward has bee even more important. It uld very well be that nobody r, but I have been ndned my whole life to be disgted by gay people and breakg that ame of md is difficult.

I thk everyone knows gay people exist…” Sure, you’re right, but I’m talkg about self-awarens both for closeted LGBTQ people and those who don’t support .

Makg gay jok, impersonatns, beg suggtive wh nuendo, all of the thgs happen ntually and don’t even turn heads sometim. And this is also why Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill is dangero for the social and emotn velopment of K-3 kids. There is ed a lot of fun and crazs at the different ftivals and parti that may happen different ci, but there are also street fairs showsg LGBTQ artisans, fay events to brg gay parents together, paras for EVERYONE to enjoy together.

10 REASONS WHY GAY PRI MATTERS

Today, wh Print Bin appotg Kare Jean-Pierre as Whe Hoe Prs Secretary, ’s a signal of workg to get back on track, as she’s both the first Black prs secretary AND the first openly gay person to hold this role. Growg up a nservative Christian hoehold, I had no example EVER of what a well-adjted or even openly gay person was like. I read a ment the other day om a man sayg that Christians need to take the rabow back om the gays.

His statement was that the rabow is a remr that God won’t flood the earth aga and that the gays need to be washed away wh a great flood.

WHY GAY PRI MATTERS

Also, we don’t know if our kids will grow up to be gay or trans or face some sort of realy that sets them apart om others.

Suggted readg: if you want to read an tertg article by our iend Frank om Fay is About Love, he openly shar his own fears of “what if my kid grows up to be gay? Even though we are gay dads and have found credible happs, bee of the world we’ve grown up , we still have that fear loomg the back of our mds, not bee of shame, but bee we know what a stggle is and how horrible people n be. Many brands that don’t feature same sex upl or gay fai any other time of year are eager to work wh e Pri season.

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. 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. New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days.

WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS

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.

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. It's a powerful symbolic actn that started after the 1969 Stonewall Rts New York Cy when gays fought back agast police then Gay Pri, which is ually the whole month of June, has expand around the globe. It's about the gay muny beg visible and belongg to a muny, a town, a cy, a natn and the 's about spreadg hope that not only are thgs gettg better but thgs will ntue to improve bee we won't fet the battl, the liv lost and the pa suffered that now affords a growg list of equal rights the Uned Stat.

But let's not fet plac like Rsia, India or Uganda that have crimalized beg gay or dog anythg that publiciz the LGBT matters bee 's not always obv that our world is built around straight privilege; which says 's ok that the top NFL draft n kiss his girliend but our gay profsnal sports hero, Michael Sam is dog somethg wrong by kissg his boyiend on televisn. That is always worth on YourTango: This article origally appeared on "Openly Out: Why Gay Pri Matters" Before You Go18 LGBT Pri FactsYou May Like.

WHY GAY PRI STILL MATTERS

Pri an over-saturated extreme n be dangero, but so n most Gay Pri MattersAll this public thought about pri about bee of some recent discsns I’ve had regardg gay pri. Most publicly, gay pri tak place the month of June (clared LGBT Pri month) the form of ftivals and paras. That’s bee of the historil June 1969 Stonewall rts (a fg moment gay history) muni across the world celebrate gay pri durg the summertime wh cultural ftivals, street paras, parti and public speech.

OPENLY OUT: WHY GAY PRI MATTERS

From Dallas to Toronto, San Francis to Amsterdam--even Uganda--gay pri ftivals are often a place for supporters to publicly e together and celebrate. In a time and age when gay rights are creasgly beg a realy many natns, gay pri still matters…Bee there’s still more work to be doneThis year has been a momento year for gay rights and so there has been much to celebrate durg the 2013 gay pri season.

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 EXPERTS 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 gay rights group Freedom to Marry timat that over 30% of Amerins now live plac where gay marriage is legal.