Star Moon posted: " What is the official Pride Month? June First, President Bill Clinton declared June "Gay & Lesbian Pride Month" in 1999 and 2000. Then from 2009 to 2016, each year he was in office, President Barack Obama declared June LGBT Pride Month. Later, P" Jinx
First, President Bill Clinton declared June "Gay & Lesbian Pride Month" in 1999 and 2000. Then from 2009 to 2016, each year he was in office, President Barack Obama declared June LGBT Pride Month. Later, President Joe Biden declared June LGBTQ+ Pride Month in 2021.
What Pride Day is June 23?
More than 450 people attended from 20 states and 5 countries, and the mayor of San Francisco sent a proclamation "commending the bisexual rights community for its leadership in the cause of social justice," and declaring June 23, 1990, to be Bisexual Pride Day.
What does pride Day celebrate?
A pride parade (also known as pride march, pride event, or pride festival) is an outdoor event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social and self acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride.
What does Lgbtqia+ stand for?
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
Why is pride so important?
Pride can motivate people to strive for success and act with compassion because it forces us to consider others' viewpoints and opinions, as well as our own. Additional research has found that an internal sense of pride—feeling proud of something regardless of what others think—has benefits, too.
Who created the Lgbtq flag?
Activist Gilbert Baker
This highly visible symbol of pride arose from an idea of hope and power more than 40 years ago at a site that could be worthy of national recognition. The pride flag was created in 1978 by gay designer and political activist Gilbert Baker.
Gilbert Baker (June 2, 1951 – March 31, 2017) was an American artist, designer, and activist, best known as the creator of the rainbow flag.
Baker was born on June 2, 1951, in Chanute, Kansas.He grew up in Parsons, Kansas, where his grandmother owned a women's clothing store.His father was a judge and his mother was a teacher. He was baptized a Methodist.
Baker served in the United States Army from 1970 to 1972. He was stationed as a medic in San Francisco at the beginning of the gay rights movement, and lived there as an openly gay man.After his honorable discharge from the military, he worked on the first marijuana legalization initiative California Proposition 19 (1972), and was taught to sew by his fellow activist Mary Dunn. He used his skill to create banners for gay-rights and anti-war protest marches. It was during this time that he met and became friends with Harvey Milk.He also joined the gay drag activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence stating, "At first it was glamorous and political, but when the Sisters became more organized, I became a tool of the right wing and raised money for Jerry Falwell", referring to video and images of the group that were used for right-wing Christian efforts, "so I stopped."
Baker first created the Rainbow Flag with a collective in 1978. He refused to trademark it, seeing it as a symbol that was for the LGBT community. In 1979, Baker began work at Paramount Flag Company in San Francisco, then located on the southwest corner of Polk Street and Post Street in the Polk Gulch neighborhood. Baker designed displays for Dianne Feinstein, the Premier of China, the presidents of France, Venezuela, and the Philippines, the King of Spain, and many others. He also designed creations for numerous civic events and San Francisco Gay Pride. In 1984, he designed flags for the Democratic National Convention.
In 1994, Baker moved to New York City, where he lived for the rest of his life.Here, he continued his creative work and activism. That year he created the world's largest flag (at that time) in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots.
In 2003, to commemorate the Rainbow Flag's 25th anniversary, Baker created a Rainbow Flag that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean in Key West. After the commemoration, he sent sections of this flag to more than 100 cities around the world. Due to his creation of the rainbow flag, Baker often used the drag queen name "Busty Ross", alluding to Betsy Ross.
Baker died at home in his sleep on March 31, 2017 at age 65, in New York City. The New York City medical examiner's office determined cause of death was hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Upon Baker's death, California state senator Scott Wiener said Baker "helped define the modern LGBT movement
Born: June 2, 1951, Chanute, KS
Died: March 31, 2017, New York, NY
In 2003, Baker and his Key West project were the subject of Rainbow Pride, a feature-length documentary by Marie Jo Ferron, bought by PBS National and debuting in New York on WNET. Baker recreated his original Rainbow Flag for the Academy-award-winning 2008 film Milk, and is shown being interviewed on one of the featurettes of the DVD release.
In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art ranked the rainbow flag as an internationally recognized symbol as important as the recycling symbol.
In February and early March 2017, Baker was portrayed in Dustin Lance Black's When We Rise by Jack Plotnick, and by Dylan Arnold as young Gilbert Baker. In the second part of the miniseries Baker's character is shown sewing the flag and, later on, explaining to Cleve Jones the reasoning for the colors he had chosen.
Upon Baker's death in late March 2017, California state senator Scott Wiener said Baker "helped define the modern LGBT movement".
In Baker's memory, NewFest and NYC Pride partnered with a design team to create 'Gilbert', a rainbow font inspired by the rainbow flag, first released before June 2017.
On June 2, 2017, the 66th anniversary of his birth, Google released a Google Doodle honoring Baker.
In April 2018, a children's book, "Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag" was released by Penguin Random House.
In June 2019, Baker was one of the inaugural fifty American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument (SNM) in New York City's Stonewall Inn. The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history, and the wall's unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
Christopher Street Liberation Day on June 28, 1970, marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with the march, which was the first Gay Pride march in New York history, and covered the 51 blocks to Central Park.
The colors on the Rainbow Flag reflect the diversity of the LGBT community. When Baker raised the first rainbow flags at San Francisco Pride (his group raised two flags at the Civic Center) on June 25, 1978, it comprised eight symbolic colors:
Hot pink
Sex
Red
Life
Orange
Healing
Yellow
Sunlight
Green
Nature
Turquoise
Magic/Art
Indigo
Serenity
Violet
Spirit
Pride Day Timeline
1828 The term "crime against nature" is coined in the U.S. Criminal Code 1867 "Father of the LGBT Movement" Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs is the first to speak out for gay rights 1892 First use of "bisexual" appears in Charles Gilbert Chaddock's translation of Richard von Krafft Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis 1924 The Society for Human Rights, the first gay-rights organization in the United States, is founded. It is shut down by police within a few months 1955 The Daughters of Bilitis, the first national U.S. lesbian organization, is formed 1962 Illinois becomes the first state to decriminalize homosexual acts 1966 The National Planning Conference of Homophile Organizations is formed 1969 Stonewall riots in New York gain national attention for gay rights 1970 First Gay Liberation Day March is held in New York City; similar events are held in Los Angeles and San Francisco 1973 The American Psychiatric Association removes "homosexuality" definition as a mental disorder 1975 Minneapolis becomes the first city to protect transgender people by law from discrimination 1978 Rainbow flag is first used as symbol of gay pride 1979 First national gay-rights march is held in Washington, D.C. 2008 Diego Sanchez is appointed top legislative assistant to Rep. Barney Frank, making him the first transgender staff member on Capitol Hill California's State Supreme Court allows gay marriage; Proposition 8 then eliminates it Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage 2009 President Barack Obama signs a law extending existing federal hate-crime laws to include those committed on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity President Obama renames June as LGBT Pride Month Iowa and Vermont legalize same-sex marriage 2010 Federal court declares California's Prop. 8 unconstitutional The District of Columbia and New Hampshire legalize same-sex marriage President Obama signs law to end "don't ask, don't tell" policy 2011 The Respect for Marriage Act is filed in U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to repeal DOMA and end federal discrimination against legally married same-sex couples New York legalizes same-sex marriage President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announce policy for more specific actions against countries that do not move to create LGBT equality
LGBT Pride Month Timeline 1892 1980 2011 1980 David McReynolds becomes the first openly LGBT person to run for president 1982 Wisconsin is the first state to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation 1983 Rep. Gerry Studds (Mass.) becomes the first openly gay member of Congress 1989 Denmark becomes the first country to legalize same-sex partnerships 1993 "Don't ask, don't tell" policy allows gays/lesbians to serve in the U.S. military as long as they are closeted Minnesota passes the first state-wide law prohibiting discrimination against transgender people 1996 Supreme Court says protections for gays/lesbians are civil rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens 2000 Vermont becomes first state to legally recognize civil unions for gays and lesbians President Bill Clinton names June Gay and Lesbian Pride Month 2003 Supreme Court rules sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas 2004 Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage 2005 Civil unions become legal in Connecticut 2006 Civil unions become legal in New Jersey 2007 DiversityInc requires domesticpartner benefits as a prerequisite to make The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list 2012 The Human Rights Campaign assigns more stringent qualifications for ranking as a best place to work for LGBT employees on its Corporate Equality Index, with an emphasis on benefits for transgender employees Proposition 8 in California is ruled unconstitutional, but ruling is expected to go to U.S. Supreme Court Maryland and Washington state legalize same-sex marriage Ellen DeGeneres is named jcpenney spokesperson; CEO Ron Johnson supports her—and her strong values—despite protests from group calling itself.
PRIDE MONTH BY THE NUMBERS
52% – the percentage of LGBTQ people who've experienced depression recently.
1 in 8 – the number of LGBTQ people who have experienced unequal treatment from healthcare staff.
46% – the percentage of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people who are open about their sexual orientation with their family.
4.1% – the estimated percentage of women who identify as LGBT.
350,000 – the number of people in the LGBTQ community that are transgender women.
1 in 5 – the number of LGBTQ women living in poverty.
43% – the percentage of LGBTQ employees who haven't revealed their orientation at work.
50% – the percentage of LGBTQ workers who recently got federal protection from discrimination.
10% – the amount of time LGBT workers spend hiding their identities.
$12,000 – the annual income earned by 22% of LGBTQ people.
PRIDE MONTH TIMELINE
1946
The First LGBT Organization
The Netherlands Center for Culture adopts a vague name to mask its then taboo purpose.
June 28, 1969 -The Stonewall Riots
NYC police raid the Stonewall Inn, instigating the Stonewall Riots.
June 28, 1970 -First Official Pride Parade
Organized by pioneering bisexual activist Brenda Howard and a committee she put together, the parade sees supporters march from Greenwich Village to Central Park.
June 25, 1978 -The Rainbow Flag Flies High
Gilbert Baker's original design of the rainbow gay pride flag is flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
June 26, 2015 -Same Sex Marriage Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court makes same-sex marriages legal in all 50 U.S. states.
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