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- PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999
- JIM HORMEL SWORN AS AMERI’S FIRST GAY AMBASSADORA PHILANTHROPIST WH A LAW GREE OM THE UNIVERSY OF CHIGO LAW SCHOOL, JIM HORMEL WAS A FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND AND WAS ON THE BOARD OF THE AMERIN FOUNDATN FOR AIDS REARCH. IN 1995, PRINT CLTON APPOTED HIM TO SERVE ON THE UNED NATNS COMMISSN ON HUMAN RIGHTS, AND 1996, HE SERVED ON THE U.S. LEGATN TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.BUT WHEN CLTON NOMATED HIM AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LUXEMBOURG 1997, WH APPROVAL OM THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATNS COMMTEE, ANTI-LGBTQ+ RELIG ZEALOTS REFED A FLOOR VOTE, CLAIMG HORMEL WAS PRO-PORNOGRAPHY BEE HE FUND AN LGBTQ+ HISTORY SECTN AT THE SAN FRANCIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. CLTON GAVE HIM A RECS APPOTMENT MAY 1999, AND HE WAS SWORN AS AMERI’S FIRST GAY AMBASSADOR BY SECRETARY MALE ALBRIGHT JUNE 1999 WH HIS THEN-PARTNER, TIMOTHY WU.JIM HORMEL WAS SWORN AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LUXEMBOURG BY SECRETARY OF STATE MALE ALBRIGHT JUNE 1999. COURTY OF THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT.“UNTIL THE TIME THAT PEOPLE ACCEPT THAT ALL OF ARE BORN TO OUR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND INTY, LGBT CIZENS WILL STILL ENDURE DISCRIMATN AND SELECTIVE APPLITN OF THE CONSTUTN’S PROTECTNS,” HORMEL WROTE AN OP-ED FOR CNN ON NOVEMBER 16, 2011.TOM DUANE TAK OFFICE AS FIRST GAY NEW YORK STATE SENATOR
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PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999
Thirty years ago this month, at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy, a urageo group of cizens risted harassment and mistreatment, settg motn a cha of events that would bee known as the Stonewall Uprisg and the birth of the morn gay and lbian civil rights movement. Gays and lbians, their fai and iends, celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall every June Ameri as Gay and Lbian Pri Month; and, earlier this month, the Natnal Park Service add the Stonewall Inn, as well as the nearby park and neighborhood streets surroundg , to the Natnal Register of Historic Plac. I am proud of the measur my Admistratn has taken to end discrimatn agast gays and lbians and ensure that they have the same rights guaranteed to their fellow Amerins.
As a rult of the and other polici, gay and lbian Amerins serve openly and proudly throughout the Feral Government. That effort has rulted a groundbreakg gui that provis practil guidance to school admistrators and teachers for velopg a prehensive approach to protectg all stunts, cludg gays and lbians, om harassment and vlence. Clton, Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and laws of the Uned Stat, do thereby proclaim June 1999 as Gay and Lbian Pri Month.
I enurage all Amerins to observe this month wh appropriate programs, ceremoni, and activi that celebrate our diversy, and to remember throughout the year the gay and lbian Amerins whose many and varied ntributns have enriched our natnal life. Clton, Proclamatn 7203—Gay and Lbian Pri Month, 1999 Onle by Gerhard Peters and John T. Screenshot taken om PimEy on September 22, 2022Screenshot taken om PimEy on September 22, 2022Photo's origsInformatn listed unr the origal photo on Flickr says was taken June 25, 2006 by Thomas Locke Hobbs, a US-based photographer, at the New York Gay Pri Para.
JIM HORMEL SWORN AS AMERI’S FIRST GAY AMBASSADORA PHILANTHROPIST WH A LAW GREE OM THE UNIVERSY OF CHIGO LAW SCHOOL, JIM HORMEL WAS A FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND AND WAS ON THE BOARD OF THE AMERIN FOUNDATN FOR AIDS REARCH. IN 1995, PRINT CLTON APPOTED HIM TO SERVE ON THE UNED NATNS COMMISSN ON HUMAN RIGHTS, AND 1996, HE SERVED ON THE U.S. LEGATN TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.BUT WHEN CLTON NOMATED HIM AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LUXEMBOURG 1997, WH APPROVAL OM THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATNS COMMTEE, ANTI-LGBTQ+ RELIG ZEALOTS REFED A FLOOR VOTE, CLAIMG HORMEL WAS PRO-PORNOGRAPHY BEE HE FUND AN LGBTQ+ HISTORY SECTN AT THE SAN FRANCIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. CLTON GAVE HIM A RECS APPOTMENT MAY 1999, AND HE WAS SWORN AS AMERI’S FIRST GAY AMBASSADOR BY SECRETARY MALE ALBRIGHT JUNE 1999 WH HIS THEN-PARTNER, TIMOTHY WU.JIM HORMEL WAS SWORN AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LUXEMBOURG BY SECRETARY OF STATE MALE ALBRIGHT JUNE 1999. COURTY OF THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT.“UNTIL THE TIME THAT PEOPLE ACCEPT THAT ALL OF ARE BORN TO OUR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND INTY, LGBT CIZENS WILL STILL ENDURE DISCRIMATN AND SELECTIVE APPLITN OF THE CONSTUTN’S PROTECTNS,” HORMEL WROTE AN OP-ED FOR CNN ON NOVEMBER 16, 2011.TOM DUANE TAK OFFICE AS FIRST GAY NEW YORK STATE SENATOR
The World History Project also shows that such a para took place New York on that picture is part of an album Hobbs labeled "Gay Pri 2006" on Flickr, which shows a llectn of imag of iends who participated the Pri para. The origal image, which was taken at a New York gay pri para on June 25, 2006, shows neher of the men is the Ukraian print or his oime adviser. In a world which stunts are expelled for handg out Pri flags to prott Florida's "Don't Say Gay Bill, " the need to show support for LGTBQ+ rights—publicly as well as privately—is as important as ever.
Gilbert Baker Pri Flag(Image cred: Wikimedia Commons)In 1977, gay polician Harvey Milk tasked veteran Gilbert Baker to e up wh a Pri flag. Tradnal Gay Pri Flag (Image cred: Getty Imag/Norberto Cuen)This is probably the flag you'll see most often: Six lors, apparently easier to produce than the odd-numbered seven (although other reports say was more about makg the flag easier for paras and to hang on posts). Lbian Labrys Flag(Image cred: Getty Imag/Ecelop)This flag isn't wily ed—and part of the reason may be that the flag was signed 1999 by a gay man, Sean Campbell.
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But the "leather flag, " created by Tony DeBlase 1989, is a symbol of that muny (which clus many gay men)—black may symbolize leather, whe is pury, blue is votn, and the heart is Brotherhood Flag(Image cred: Getty Imag/grebhkovmaxim)Craig Byrn and Pl Wzkoske 1995 ma the "bear flag" for "a subculture of mascule-prentg gay, bisexual and trans men who embrace facial and body hair and may have larger bodi. 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.