LGBTQ+ Pride Month
History While there were earlier demonstrations and activities by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, the Stonewall riots are considered the beginning of LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations. In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, armed police officers raided the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, the center of the LGBTQ+ community in Manhattan, New York. Gay and lesbian bar raids were a regular occurrence in the years preceding the Stonewall riots, but this raid—in which 13 patrons were arrested—represented a tipping point. Fed up, hundreds of people rioted, protested and fought back. A year after the riots, the last Sunday in June was celebrated as Gay Pride Day. In 1999, President William J. Clinton issued a proclamation in which Gay Pride Day was expanded to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. Today, Pride celebrates the spectrum of sexual and gender identities.
What is LGBT or Gay Pride? Who Started the June Celebration? It is a movement that celebrates sexual diversity. For lesbian, Known as the “Mother of Pride”, it was bisexual pioneer Brenda gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people it is a way of Howard who coordinated the first LGBT Pride march, as well as protesting about discrimination and violence. It promotes their sparking the idea for a week of events around Pride Day. dignity, equal rights, self-affirmation and is a way of increasing These events then developed into the annual LGBT society’s awareness of the issues they face. celebrations held every June. https://www.advocate.com/bisexuality/2014/06/17/remembering- brenda-ode-‘mother-pride’
Vocabulary
Sex: medical term designating a combination of gonads, Gender: A person’s gender is made up of chromosomes, secondary sex characteristics. Traditionally - Identity/Awareness: One’s psychological sense of self divided into male or female.
- Expression: The way one expresses oneself; how society views oneself Sexual Orientation: emotional, physical, and sexual attraction
Sex and Sexual Orientation Sex, Gender, & Sexual Orientation
Transgender: Umbrella term 1. Someone whose gender identity or expression does not fit (dominant-group social constructs of) assigned birth sex and gender. 2. A gender outside of the man/woman binary. 3. Having no gender or multiple genders.
Additional vocabulary can be found at https://diversitybch.ucsf.edu/terminology
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LGBTQ+ Milestones
LGBTQ+ US LAWS and MOVEMENT POLICIES PRIDE FLAGS IN US
1952 Christine Jorgensen becomes the first 1976 American to undergo a gender–affirming Harvey Milk becomes the first openly gay operation city commissioner in the United States
1955 2003 First known lesbian rights organization, Sodomy laws struck down, making same The first Rainbow Flag Daughters of Bilitis, formed in San sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a Francisco state and territory San Francisco artist. 1969 2008 The Stonewall riots in NY sparking the Stu Rasmussen becomes the nation's first gay liberation movement openly transgender mayor
1973 2009 The American Psychiatric Association President Obama signs a referendum removes homosexuality from its official allowing the same-sex partners of federal employees to receive benefits list of mental disorders Transgender Flag created by Monica Helms, a trans woman, 2010 1979 in 1999. National March for Lesbian and Gay Phyllis Frye is sworn in as the nation’s Rights in Washington, D.C. one of the first openly transgender judge largest political gatherings in support of LGBTQ+ rights to date 2010 The “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy is 1980 repealed, allowing gays, lesbians, and Transgender were officially classified as bisexuals to openly serve in the military having “gender identity disorder” by the American Psychiatric Association 2012 Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly Bisexual Flag 1999 gay politician elected to the Senate and designed by Michael Page in 1998 The first Transgender Day of first open lesbian elected to Congress Remembrance is observed 2015 2016 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that same- First national monument on LGBT rights, sex marriage is a legal right across the the Stonewall National Monument United States
2017 2016 District of Columbia residents can choose The Department of Defense revises a gender-neutral option on their driver’s regulations to allow transgender people Intersex Flag license to serve openly in the military designed by Morgan Carpenter in 2013
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