Issue Issue 493 - GAY TIMES

Contents:

• STATEMENTS OF SOLIDARY: GAY TIMES LNCH TRANS DAY OF VISIBILY MPAIGN AS LLECTIVE STANCE AGAST PREJUDICE
• GAY TIMES MARCH 2023
• GAY TIMES ISSUE 493
• GAY TIMES
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO

STATEMENTS OF SOLIDARY: GAY TIMES LNCH TRANS DAY OF VISIBILY MPAIGN AS LLECTIVE STANCE AGAST PREJUDICE

Ahead of Trans Day of Visibily (TDOV) on 31 March 2023, GAY TIMES has lnched a natnwi mpaign tled Statements of Solidary that offer msag of seeg, acknowledgg and supportg the transgenr muny across the Uned Kgdom. The artworks e a WongDoody ctom-created font spired by queer and trans plards seen at protts over the last 30 years, showsg how the letters, along wh the words wrten, hold s of historil nnotatns for the LGBTQ+ muny and the GAY TIMES rearship.

“The Statements of Solidary mpaign monstrat not only GAY TIMES’ ntued and hardle support for trans+ liv, but the urgent need to spread a public and brazen msage of hope for this muny, ” says Hollie Wong (they/them), GAY TIMES’ Senr Social Media Manager. “Across GAY TIMES’ social media, those who see the msag will be enuraged to share photos and vios of their view so the mpaign also transcends the billboards and ntu onle and across social media.

GAY TIMES MARCH 2023

If you spot one, make sure to tag @gaytim and we’ll be sharg Statements of Solidary across our social channels to amplify the msage further.

Here, at GAY TIMES, we don’t stand for tolerance or threatened harm to our muni. Augt 2023GAY TIMES Magaze is the first word on queer culture. It’s servg full-blown gay, and by "gay", we mean "gay a crisis.

GAY TIMES ISSUE 493

" If Margot Robbie’s Barbie wasn't already blon, she would have bleached her hair even faster than a gay man three days to lockdown. Indulge gay nostalgia wh Christa Aguilera and Junr Vasquez, see Billy Porter march, or dance the night away at Body annual Pri March on June 26, 2022, Rs/The New York TimNew York Cy’s official Pri theme this year is Strength Solidary, an apt remr that Pri was born as a prott movement agast bigotry wherever manifts.

Artists, and Body Hack, a mutual aid project for transgenr and nonbary groups, are anizg a party at Nowadays on June ViceGen Xers who me of age New York are for two dos of gay nostalgia this month. Junr Vasquez — whose track “If Madonna Calls” is a gay ’90s anthem — sps at Fire Island’s Ice Palace (June 3).

13, explor the gay unrton the artist’s patgs and prt advertisements. Tickets clu five bgo rds (but brg your own dber) Gay StageImageOrville Peck performs onstage 2022.

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Gay wboy mystery man ​​Orville Peck plays the Theater at Madison Square Garn on June 20. The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world.

The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people. What is Gay Pri or LGBTQ+ Pri? Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.

A Brief History of Gay Pri. In June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ+ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

This seri of events was a turng pot for the LGBTQ+ muny and marks one of the most signifint events leadg to the morn gay rights movement.

As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival. Most gay pri paras and events also occur durg a peak season of the year when the weather most ial, yet another reason to book your trip durg the event. Whether travelg alone, wh iends or fay, visg durg a gay pri event n be a fun way to experience a new statn and IGLTA n help you fd LGBTQ-iendly bs almost any lotn to help make you trip memorable, safe and excg.

We have published this lendar to rm the LGBTQ+ muny of important gay pri events and paras globally to offer a plete source for planng your travel.

CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO

We provi ee rourc and rmatn for LGBTQ+ travelers cludg this list of global gay pri events.

2023 & 2024 Internatnal Gay Pri Events. This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25. Events and their supporters have st a pall over gay bars and muny Cullg marched wh a sign that read, “I march for my dghter” – a fact more ways than one, havg crossed the untry wh her 18-year-old trans dghter om Southern California search of a more welg home.

Young people particular, banng transgenr health re for mors and barrg teachers om discsg gay and transgenr topics a report released last week, two civil rights groups documented more than 350 acts of anti-L. Harassment, vandalism or vlence the Uned Stat between June 2022 and April 2023, wh more than half explicly referrg to gay or transgenr people as of those cints have been adly. Such a plan was rried out by a shooter Colorado who killed five people and jured 17 more at a gay bar last November, what prosecutors have said was a hate same month, anxieti were high New York after a gay bar had s wdow smashed by bricks four tim one month.

Weeks later, the office of a gay New York Cy Council member was vandalized by opponents of Drag Story Time, who then vandalized his home and asslted his Hamja/The New York TimEven the se of Stonewall Inn, the se of the 1969 rts, has not been spared.

"I've always been favor of gay rights. I'm gay, but 's gettg really dangero, " said Jt Bent-MacCubb, who attend wh his son. Have a good time for the gay pri, " attene Sasha Marie Montenegro said.

The first march was anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) - a group first formed the US, who wanted to take a stand agast 1970, the group cid to hold s first para, on the one year anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn 1969 - where LGBT+ patrons had been targeted by the New York Police Department. Throughout the para, there will also be a few performanc across stag certa are the different stag:• Trafalgar Square Stage Mic om: Wt End Cast of SIX the Mil, Jahan, Kgs Elltt, Wners of Pri's Got Talent 2023, Homoparody, Jack Hawt, Stars Louis III, Dylan & the Moon, Ida Menzel, Todrick Hall and Adam Lambert. • Dean Street StageMic: Sadie Sner & The Coa Butter Club, Be Jangl, Alexa Vox, HERR & Me, Lola Lasagne, Conleth Kane, London Gay Men's Chos, Alpha Dancers, Natalie Gray, Jobie, Jenny Son, Aaron Sibley, Andrea Di Gvanni, Sweet FA, Fae Wildfyre, Jordan Charl, Moira Ls and performanc: Hs Of Zodiac, Wner of Pri's Got Talent 2023, Marnie Srlet, BOi Boxm Bourgeois & Mrice, Jordan Gray and Juno Birch.