LGBTQ+ PRIDE

-


                             PRIDE MONTH 

       Cities celebrate Gay Pride Month

It's Pride Month. Here's what you need to know.

In June, the LGBT communities around the world join together to celebrate their right to be who they want to be.

Yet, Pride events go beyond fun times and colorful attire. They have their roots in the laborious history of minority groups that have fought against discrimination and for acceptance of who they are for many years.

The Stonewall uprising in New York City in June 1969 served as a catalyst for the modern homosexual rights movement, therefore the original organizers decided to honor it this month. Although other cities hold their celebrations at different times of the year, most cities hold their Pride events around June each year. The following questions may be interesting because they have answers about this Month of Pride.


Who celebrates it?

A participant from Venezuela takes part in Berlin's annual gay pride parade in 2017.


Pride celebrations are intended for everyone who thinks that their sexual orientation is out of the ordinary, while many straight individuals attend as well.

The letters LGBT stand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. The word is occasionally expanded to encompass gay, intersex, and asexual groups, or even LGBTQIA. Asexual persons are those who do not experience sexual desire, whereas intersex people are those whose sex is not clearly defined due to genetic, hormonal, or biological changes. The term "queer" is an umbrella term for non-straight people.

These phrases may also apply to folks who identify as gender-fluid, or whose gender identification changes over time or in response to circumstances.


How did it start?

People celebrate outside the historic Stonewall Inn during the New York Pride March on June 27, 2021, in New York City.

Police attacked the Stonewall Inn, a gay nightclub in New York City's Greenwich Village, in the early hours of June 28, 1969, and started dragging patrons outside. While customers resisted being arrested and a growing number of onlookers tossed bottles and cash at the officers, the situation quickly became tense. The LGBT community in New York became enraged after years of harassment by the police, and three days of neighborhood rioting ensued.

As organizations like the Gay Liberation Front and the LGBT Activists Alliance were established, emulating the civil rights movement and the women's rights movement, the uprising served as a spur for the emerging gay rights movement. To keep political leaders accountable, members protested, spoke with them, and left public gatherings. One year later


Where did the Pride name come from?



It's credited to Brenda Howard, a bisexual New York activist nicknamed the "Mother of Pride," who organized the first Pride parade to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.

In addition, over its history, the meaning of the word "pride" has undergone numerous variations. Pride has undergone some minor modifications, one of which is happening right now, in addition to functional shift (taking on a new part of speech) and semantic drift (an evolution of usage leading to changed meaning), both of which are common to many words in English. Real-time language changing


What's the origin of the rainbow flag?

                                                 Eric Thayer/Getty Images

One of the first openly homosexual political officials in the US, San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, commissioned artist and designer Gilbert Baker in 1978 to create a flag for the city's approaching Pride celebrations. Baker, a well-known advocate for homosexual rights, nodded to the American flag's stripes while drawing inspiration from the rainbow to represent the diversity of the gay community.

Baker, a well-known advocate for homosexual rights, nodded to the American flag's stripes while drawing inspiration from the rainbow to represent the diversity of the gay community.

Other sexualities on the spectrum, such as bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexism, are represented by a smaller group of flags.


Can I participate in Pride events if I'm not LGBT?

Sure. Pride events welcome allies from outside the LGBT community. Parades and other celebrations are opportunities to show support, to observe, listen and be educated.

Kamala Harris, then California's attorney general, rides in San Francisco's Pride parade in 2016.

Here is a link that will lead you to a page about PRIDE MONTH's content.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/health/pride-month-explainer 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The importance of LGBTQ+ inclusive education in schools

-
Image
- Lack of diversity is one of the major causes of the loss of inclusivity in school-based curriculum, including sex education, learning different aspects of the community, and even the ongoing rate of discrimination. The students' understanding of LGBTQ+ issues, history, and importance in daily life is greatly impacted by the sources used for lessons, the lesson plans themselves, and even the demographics of the school. Thus, the underlying realization that LGBTQ+ education has little to no participation in most classrooms is shared by students, schools, and parents. LGBTQ+ Sex Ed in Classrooms Less than adequate coverage of sexual education has always been given to the LGBT population in media. You might wonder "Why is educating LGBT sex ed so important?". According to Hannah Slater, who wrote a detailed article on the subject of the lack of sex education in schools, "Sex-education standards currently vary greatly across the nation, leaving many American youth uninf...
Read more

HOW THE MEDIA HAS HELPED CHANGE PUBLIC VIEWS ABOUT LESBIAN AND GAY PEOPLE.

-
Image
Few changes in public opinion in the United States and elsewhere have been as swift and pervasive as those regarding views toward lesbian women and gay men. In our latest work, we examine how the media has aided in this significant transformation. Our study demonstrates that the media can influence political opinions toward sexuality and minorities generally on a global scale, particularly those of more impressionable, younger people. Virtual Contacts with Gays and Lesbians The flow of information through the media, including television, movies, music, books, and many other platforms, promotes interaction and conversation among groups and even across international borders. Gordon Allport, an influential psychologist, is often cited in scholarly research for his contact thesis – which, put simply, says that under the right conditions, interpersonal contact is one of the best ways to reduce prejudice between majority and minority groups. Using this as a foundation, we contend that "...
Read more