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Contents:

• GAY PRI
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH

GAY PRI

Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty.

Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).

Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore. In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag. As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month is currently celebrated each year the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan.

In the Uned Stat the last Sunday June was ially celebrated as "Gay Pri Day, " but the actual day was flexible.

The purpose of the memorative month is to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals have had on history lolly, natnally, and ternatnally. Memorate the Christopher Street Uprisgs of last summer which thoands of homosexuals went to the streets to monstrate agast centuri of abe... Om ernment hostily to employment and hog discrimatn, Mafia ntrol of Gay bars, and anti-Homosexual laws" (Christopher Street Liberatn Day Commtee Fliers, Frankl Kameny Papers).

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH

The ncept behd the ial Pri march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO), who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn (1965-1969) known as the "Remr Day Pickets, " at Inpennce Hall Philalphia. At the ERCHO Conference November 1969, the 13 homophile anizatns attendance voted to pass a rolutn to anize a natnal annual monstratn, to be lled Christopher Street Liberatn Day. As members of the Mattache Society of Washgton, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vcenz participated the discsn, planng, and promotn of the first Pri along wh activists New York Cy and other homophile groups belongg to ERCHO.

Watch documentary footage of the first Pri march, "Gay and Proud, " a documentary by activist Lilli Vcenz:. The Law Library of Congrs has piled guis to memorative observatns, cludg a prehensive ventory of the Public Laws, Printial Proclamatns and ngrsnal rolutns related to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr and Queer Pri Month. Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp.