Contents:
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
- ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
The Stonewall Uprisg began on June 28, 1969, when police raid the Stonewall Inn, a proment gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. To put together Pri events was om cisgenr, gay whe men. But even before the first Pri paras, mblgs of the gay rights movement were happeng all over the untry.
In 1950, for example, activist Harry Hay found the Mattache Society, the first natnal gay rights anizatn. In 1966, the Mattache Society staged a “sip-” at a Greenwich Village bar after the New York Liquor Authory banned servg gay patrons bee they were “disorrly, ” PBS wrote.
ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’
As the LGBTQ rights movement grew, the muny turned away om outdated terms like transsexual and homosexual to transgenr, gay and lbian. In earlier protts, the “Homophile Movement” the 1950s and 1960s foced on rpectabily – drsg sus and skirts and rryg signs prott.
“A new spir has entered the stggle for homosexual eedom – a new spir both ant tone and revolutnary orientatn, ” a 1970 Gay Liberatn Front flyer reads. “Homosexuals at last have realized that they will never be able to be liberated by polely askg the system.