2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• GAY PRI
• GAY PRI GALA AND AWARDS CEREMONY 2022
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• 33 JIM OWL GAY PRI AWARDS CEREMONY STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

Established 2007 by the Print’s Commissn on Sexualy, Genr Diversy, and Queer Equaly (formerly the Print's Commissn on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Concerns), this annual award regniz a member of Emory Universy’s LGBT muny. As a formative lear the LGBTQ civil rights movement, Berl was a founr of the Geia Gay Liberatn Front and of Atlanta Pri. The Berl Boyk Fierce Learship Award wh a $3000 prize and honors an Emory stunt who has ma meangful ntributns to Emory’s lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny throughout the past year through their learship on or off mp.

This award honors an Emory Alum who has ma meangful ntributns to the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny throughout the past year. This award honors and acknowledg ntributns ma by an dividual, partment or anizatn to Emory’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muni throughout the past year. Strategi and skills for terptg homo/bi/transphobic suatns, and for supportg LGBTQ stunts, staff and faculty.

GAY PRI

On June 1, 2021, the Bin-Harris Admistratn champned LGBTQ+ equaly wh a proclamatn affirmg June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pri Month, markg a time of hope, progrs, and promise for LGBTQ+ Amerins and their alli across the untry.

October is LGBT History Month which celebrat the achievements of 31 lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr ins each year. LGBT History Month was started by Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, 1994, and has sce been endorsed by GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, the Natnal Edutn Associatn and other natnal anizatn. Drsed formal attire, monstrators rried signs that read “equal treatment before the law” and “homosexual bill of rights.

The anizer of that prott, Craig Rodwell, along wh Barbara Gtgs (mother of the gay rights movement) and Kay Tob Lahen (gay rights pneer and photojournalist), marched Philalphia annually – their march beme known as “the Annual Remrs.

GAY PRI GALA AND AWARDS CEREMONY 2022

The events, cludg a police raid of a gay, lbian and transgenr bar at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, fundamentally changed the disurse surroundg LGBTQ+ activism the Uned Stat – many say Stonewall sparked the “Gay Revolutn. Dick Lesch: A print of the Mattache Society (the first gay and lbian rights group) of New York om 1964 to 1972, and bt known for leadg a well-planned prott 1966 lled the “sip-, ” which was directly spired by the earlier lunch unter s-s of the Black civil rights movement the Amerin South.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

Craig Rodwell: In addn to marchg on Philalphia and foundg the first gay bookstore New York, Rodwell was the one who lled the New York Cy newspapers to garner prs verage of the Stonewall Uprisg as was takg place. The PBS Documentary, Stonewall Uprisg, n be streamed at Jt one year after Stonewall, LGBTQ+ activists hosted the first Gay Pri Paras  New York Cy, Chigo, San Francis and Los Angel.

“The [New York Cy] march was 51 blocks long om wt of Sixth Avenue at Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, all the way to Sheep’s Meadow Central Park, where activists held a ‘Gay-.

33 JIM OWL GAY PRI AWARDS CEREMONY STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

’ Borrowg a technique that had been popularized by the Civil Rights Movement, the ‘Gay-’ was both a prott and a celebratn. The ont page of The New York Tim ran wh the headle, ‘Thoands of Homosexuals Hold A Prott Rally Central Park. It’s still difficult for me to grasp that homosexual acts were illegal all stat except Illois 1969 – the year of Stonewall.

Then, 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA), after nsirable advocy by Frank Kameny (father of the gay rights movement who fought agast the feral ernment after beg fired bee he was a homosexual) and members of the Mattache Society, changed the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr. It was not until 1987, however, that homosexualy was pletely removed om the APA list of mental disorrs.