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Today marks the beginning of Pride Month 2023, guys! How are you going to celebrate Pride Month this year?
But first and foremost, why is LGBT Pride Month celebrated in June?
Well, it’s to commemorate the Stonewall riots and the impact it made on the lives of LGBT people worldwide. Stonewall served as the catalyst for change, the emergence of gay rights movements in the US, and the LGBT community’s subsequent fight for rights and equality.
The Stonewall riots—also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall—refers to a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community from June 28 to July 3, 1969.
Stonewall refers to the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar owned and operated by the New York Mafia which is located in the Greenwich Village in New York City. It is famous for being the site of the riot that lasted for days, which started because of what seemed at first, a usual police raid that took place at around 1:20 am on June 28, 1969. Raids were common during that period, but in that particular moment something shifted, and for the first time the LGBT community was fighting back and saying, “We are gay and we are here to stay.”
Stage and Cinema -DVD Review: STONEWALL UPRISING (PBS) Photographer: Joseph Ambrosini of the New York Daily News
This year’s theme is “Rage and Resilience,” and is said to have been chosen to “reflect the current global climate with the resurgence of anti-LGBT bills and laws.”
Having said all that, we encourage everyone to join the festivities, be it the Pride Parade, rallies, workshops, concerts, exhibits, and various other LGBTQ+ events in your area.
More importantly, we also enjoin everyone to not only engage in discussions on social media but to raise awareness about the challenges being faced by the LGBTQ+ community today as well. Pride Month, after all, is about honoring LGBTQ+ history, recognizing how far the LGBTQ community has come, not to mention raising visibility and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community.
Happy Pride Month 2023, guys!
Happy Pride Month
— 🌈The Where True Love is Movement 🏳️⚧️ (@WhereTrueLoveIs) June 1, 2023
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Happy Pride, America.
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 1, 2023
This month, in the face of cruel attacks on LGBTQI+ rights across the country, we celebrate the LGBTQI+ Americans who are fiercely and unapologetically fighting for freedom and equality – and reaffirm that their rights are human rights. pic.twitter.com/JLeEdl0eYB
Pride is within & Freedom is everyday!
I don’t plan to do anything different this month. I will continue to treat people the way I want to be treated. I will continue to demand respect. I won’t acknowledge pride month because I take pride in myself and my people all year round. I pray that it be a peaceful month as I pray for peace and unity all other months of the year.
Well cited!
Will you ruminate or vegetate over the course of this month?
“Pride like freedom is indeed, from within” agreed! I too, “will do nothing different” agreed as well! I still, hold my head high; respecting myself first and anyone who earns my respect, which is why I haven’t been to a pride celebration in decades, especially, since coming to the south. As an African American, here, just like in my hometown of Minneapolis, there really isn’t the unity between the “ethnicities.” It’s very much ‘still’ segregated. I know, there was for a while, specifically, a Black gay pride. . . Not that surprising, right, I just keep hoping, that the next… Read more »
A month during which “The Community”, the L, the G, the T, the B, the Q, the +, and the rest (the additional letters of those needing to differentiate themselves) further dis-diversify and dis-include themselves from Society, especially from those who are S. Those promulgating the June event demand diversity and demand inclusion, when the end result is their promoting their own homogeneity and exclusivity with slogans of “we will fight, we will oppose, we will overcome, we will defeat anyone who does not support us or who gets in our way in ANY way!!!”
You knocked it out of the ball park!!!!
Agree 100%
I’m a NYer. Are you aware that the new Gay Pride board of directors is now so diverse, that it doesn’t even include one of your average, day to day, plain and simple gay men?
It just means “Diversification” diluted into nothingness!
“And the beat goes on” hurt people . . . any one group, who has had to; is coming from an “under-class” situation, which has caused, trauma/s, if not healed, but “perpetuated.” Same actions, same results, “everybody’s gotta fight to be free”, “freedom ain’t free.” Being the past is still present despite a new day, then “the beat goes on.” OR, how about this, you’re American, period, right, so you’re just as free as the next in real time as it says in the books! No need for all of these distinctions, share and share alike, oops, wait, there’s the… Read more »
You know, there’s too much hypocrisy from within the community/s, we’re not all pulling together, for each other, too much division; a “house divided . . .” you know the rest of that. I’m just wondering how the “log-cabin” group is feeling, pretty confused, no doubt. As our American politics is being hijacked by Religion-Catholicism, basically.
I plan on mowing my lawn, spending time with friends, doing the dishes, going to work, paying my bills and various other normal life stuff. Doing what Stonewall was originally about; -Being left alone to live my life- I will not be shoving my bedroom in people’s faces and taking part in the rest of the embarassing freakshow.
I really don’t find anything to be proud about these days. My sexuality is what it is and there are lots of others like me. I don’t have to go out and shove it in people’s faces only to generate ire and disrespect. Unlike some, my sexuality doesn’t define who I am. Rather, it’s just a small part of it. I support parental rights when it come to their children, how they want them to be raised, and to have some control over their exposure to groomers and doctors who would mutilate them before they’re old enough to fully understand… Read more »
I read an article this week in a pretty balanced, center of the political road media outlet. It talked about the backlashes happening when it comes to Pride, Transgender and LGTBQ+ issues. It stated that the Rainbow flag was no longer a symbol for sexual orientation rights of individuals. Rather, that it has been hijacked by an aggressive, pervasive organization pushing to expand its power to press its Progressive Liberal agenda across all parts of society. Its members were pushing to take over decision making by education administrators and elected government officials. Its views and actions are clearly extremist in… Read more »