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- GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
- PEOPLE CELEBRATE GAY PRI AT PARIS PRI OR LA MARCHE S FIERT LGBT+ FRANCE
GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
June is Pri Month, so signated memoratn of the Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan on June 28, 1969 — a tippg pot the gay rights movement. Sgle tickets are $25; group tickets $20 per person at 18Bat-N-Rouge — Home ns meet high heels at the Columb Lbian & Gay Softball Associatn's annual chary softball game, played drag at Dodge Park, 667 Sullivant Ave. A lp of speakers clus Granville Mayor Melissa Hartfield and the Granville High School Gay Straight matter:From agenr to transng, a rear's gui to LGBTQ terms and phrasContug throughout JuneStonewall Columb Pri 5K — Prented by Fleet Feet, this virtual 5K fundraiser giv participants a chance to dance, prance, n or walk their own rout or one suggted on the event webse.
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. Stonewall RtsAs was mon practice many ci, the New York Police Department would ocsnally raid bars and rtrants where gays and lbians were known to gather.
PEOPLE CELEBRATE GAY PRI AT PARIS PRI OR LA MARCHE S FIERT LGBT+ FRANCE
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. Acrdg to activist Craig Schoonmaker, “I thored the word ‘pri’ for gay pri … [my] first thought was ‘Gay Power. ’ I didn’t like that, so proposed gay pri.