2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• GAY PRI
• NYC GAY PRI PARA 2022 DAT, TIM, ROUTE AND RTRICTNS
• 13 BIGGT GAY PRI PARAS THE WORLD

CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO

This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25. (Michael Tercha, Chigo Tribune)The Chigo Pri Para is back after a 3-year hiat due to the ronavis panmic and is the highlight of a month of events planned to honor and celebrate Chigo’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng or queer (LGBTQ) muny durg ’s what you need to know before you go. Organizers suggt g public gay rights are celebrated JuneIn this 2019 photo, Pri flags and lors display on the Stonewall Inn bar, markg the se of 1969 rts that followed a police raid of the bar's gay patrons, New York.

(Bebeto Matthews/AP)LGBT Pri Month memorat the June 1969 Stonewall rts New York’s Greenwich Village, which began when patrons at a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, vlently risted a police raid.

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7-acre area — cludg the tavern and a small park across the street — the first natnal monument to gay rights history of gay rights ChigoWhat is Chigo’s role the gay rights movement? A short Tribune story the next day said 150 people listened to speakers Bughoe Square (now Washgton Square Park) before walkg to the Civic Center (now Daley Plaza) where they formed a cha around the Pisso statue and shouted, “Gay power to gay people.

”Chigo’s march preced paras New York Cy, Los Angel and other ci by one Liberatn Front members march through Bughoe Square (now Washgton Square Park) on their way to a rally at the Civic Center (now Daley Plaza) on June 27, 1970, as part of Chigo's first Gay Pri Week. Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians.

In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians.

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Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy.

Stonewall RtsAs was mon practice many ci, the New York Police Department would ocsnally raid bars and rtrants where gays and lbians were known to gather. By the time the Stonewall Rts end on July 2, 1969, the gay rights movement went om beg a ge issue largely ignored by policians and the media to ont-page news Gay Pri ParaOne year later, durg the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, activists New York Cy marched through the streets of Manhattan memoratn of the uprisg.

NYC GAY PRI PARA 2022 DAT, TIM, ROUTE AND RTRICTNS

The march, anized by the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Umbrella Commtee, was named the Christopher Street Liberatn Day time, that celebratn me to be simply known as the Gay Pri Para. March and paras also took place that June Chigo, Los Angel and San the years, gay pri events have spread om large ci to smaller towns and villag worldwi—even plac where reprsn and vlence agast gays and lbians are monplace. The atmosphere at the events n range om r, rnivalque celebratns to strint polil prott to solemn memorials for those lost to AIDS or homophobic June 2000, Print Bill Clton officially signated June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month, regnn of the Stonewall Rts and gay activism throughout the years.

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A more-clive name was chosen 2009 by Print Barack Obama: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri origs of Gay Pri Month were also honored by Obama when, 2016, he created the Stonewall Natnal Monument, a 7. 7-acre around the Stonewall Inn where the morn gay rights movement, Gay Pri paras many ci are enormo celebratns: The events Sao Plo, Sydney, New York Cy, Madrid, Taipei and Toronto routely attract up to 5 ln Pri Month has grown populary across the globe, cricism of the events has grown, too. Many early anizers now cry the mercial fluence and rporate nature of Pri paras—pecially when those rporatns make donatns to policians who vote agast gay, lbian and transgenr Pri events are nohels seen as val protts agast reprsn and isolatn plac such as Serbia, Turkey and Rsia, where Pri paras have been met wh antigay vlence.

“It has gone om beg a statement of advocy and prott to beg much more of a celebratn of gay life, ” Sean Clark, 67, said of New York Cy's annual para while enjoyg a drk recently at Juli's, one of the olst gay bars Manhattan's Greenwich Village. New York's first Pri March, then lled the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March, was held 1970 to mark the first anniversary of the Stonewall rebelln, a spontaneo street uprisg triggered by a police raid on a gay bar Manhattan. In a Supreme Court lg Friday strikg down the right to abortn, Jtice Clarence Thomas said a ncurrg opn that the urt should also rensir s 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage and a 2003 cisn strikg down laws crimalizg gay sex.