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HISTORY OF PRIDE MONTH
1946 The first LGBT Organisation was formed in the Netherlands – the ‘Netherlands Centre for Culture.
Pride Month is largely credited as being started by bisexual activist Brenda Howard. Known as ‘The Mother of Pride’, Brenda organized Gay Pride Week and the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade a year after the Stonewall Riots. This eventually morphed into what we now know as the New York City Pride March and was the catalyst for the formation of similar parades and marches across the world. Harvey Milk, who was a gay politician, asked a talented designer friend, Gilbert Baker, to design an all-encompassing symbol to take to San Francisco’s Pride March in 1978. The rainbow flag was born. Bill Clinton was the first U.S. President to officially recognize Pride Month in 1999 and 2000. Then, from 2009 to 2016, Barack Obama declared June LGBT Pride Month. In May 2019, Donald Trump recognized Pride Month with a tweet announcing that his administration had launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.
June is Pride month - a month which is dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities all around the world. Pride is a celebration of people coming together in love and friendship, to show how far LGBTQ+ rights have come, but also how in some places there’s still work to be done. The Stonewall riots were important protests that took place in 1969 in the US, that changed gay rights for a lot of people in America and around the world. On June 28, 1969, in New York, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village, which resulted in rioting onto Christopher Street outside. Among the many leaders of the riots was a black, trans, bisexual woman, Marsha P. Johnson, leading the movement to continue over six days with protests and clashes. Protestors demanded the establishment of places where LGBT+ people could go and be open about their sexual orientation without fear of arrest.
Sources: https://nationaltoday.com/pride-month/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52872693
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