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Contents:

• GAY PRI
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• TODAY GAY HISTORY
• EARLY DAYS OF AIDS: ‘MAKG GAY HISTORY’ FEATUR GMHC

GAY PRI

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Created by Adam Steward 2009 and celebrated on July 16, Internatnal Drag Day to give drag artists a chance to showse their creativy and ntributns to gay culture. Shepard’s attackers targeted him for robbery as a gay man and pretend to be gay to lure him. Started 2010 by Canadian teenager Brtany McMillan, and promoted by GLAAD, was created rponse to a seri of bullyg-related suicis of gay stunts like Tyler Clementi.

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).

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

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. 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. ETSource: Getty ImagAn archival photo of an LGBT para gog through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.

The holiday honors the 1969 Stonewall Getty ImagA banner readg “We Are Everywhere” at a Gay Pri march on Fifth Avenue New York Cy, USA, July 1979.

TODAY GAY HISTORY

On June 28, 1969, when police officers raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street, Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

Acrdg to History, was mon at the time for police to raid bars whout liquor licens — which, not cintally, were oftentim gay bars, as New York’s liquor thory tend to reject liquor license applitns om gay bars, as per NYCdata. The Stonewall Uprisg helped lnch the gay rights people see the Stonewall Rts and protts as the event that lnched the gay rights movement. For the reasons, activists see Pri as a prott, not a Getty ImagAn archival photo of an LGBT para gog through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.

EARLY DAYS OF AIDS: ‘MAKG GAY HISTORY’ FEATUR GMHC

Acrdg to the Library of Congrs, origal fliers promotg the very first Pri March stated that the march aimed to "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.

13, 1979, the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights was held Washgton, D.