Writing Portfolio Selected Works written by Angeli Manabat
[email protected] Your Guide to the Month of Pride By Angeli Manabat Heads up lesbians, gays, transgenders, and bisexuals! This month of June is the LGBT Pride Month. From Caitlyn Jenner’s coming out to Ireland’s approval of same-sex marriage, there are surely a lot of breakthroughs to celebrate this Pride Month. So bring out you rainbow flags and be loud and proud! The LGBT Pride Month commemorates the historic Stonewall Inn Riot, a historic event in which the gay people finally stood up for the first time to fight for their justice and equality. Way back June 28, 1969, police raided a gay bar called Stonewall Inn located in Greenwich Village, New York City. During that time, it was common for the police to raid gay bars to enforce liquor laws. It was illegal to serve alcohol to gays or for gays to dance with one another. These police raids resorted to violence and inflicted charges to innocent people. Exhausted of what they felt was unfair targeting, the bar’s patronage resisted and fought back. It resulted to series of demonstrations by the gay community against the unjust treatment. It was considered as the awakening of the Gay Rights Movement. Originally, June 28 was the Gay Pride Day, but due to the increase of events on this day, it was eventually extended to the whole month of June. On June 2000, Former U.S. President Bill Clinton issued an executive order stating June as the “Gay and Lesbian Month.” In effort to extend this, U.S.