What is LGBTQ+ Pride Month?
It celebrates LGBTQ+ individuals who have used their talent and creativity to help create awareness and goodwill.
June also honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. It was a series of demonstrations led by the gay community in response to a police raid that began June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, a bar that was a haven for those in the LGBTQ community. Homosexuality was illegal in almost every state. Bars and restaurants could get shut down for having gay employees or serving gay patrons. Police raids were common during the time, citing that the bar did not have a proper liquor license, which sought to shut down bars.
You can learn more about the Stonewall Uprising in the video linked below.
Footage of one of the earliest Gay Pride demonstration marches, the first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, held in New York City, New York, on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
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