All You Need To Know About LGBTQ+ Pride Month

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is Here ! All You Need To Know

LGBTQ + Pride Month is about teaching and promoting the message of inclusiveness and fair treatment, but also promoting accomplishments of the gay community, learning more about the gay rights history as well raising awearness about problems facing gay community.

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It is also a representation of the queer culture and aims at promoting and put into foreground queer narratives, though it may have diverse meanings depending on historical periods. It serves to honor the years of fight that the community has gone through in the civil rights fight and more so observes the fight of the community for equitable based on merit LGBTQ+ people.

What are Pride parades?

Pride parades, also referred to as pride events, pride festivals, pride marches or pride protests, are one of the festivities witnessed during pride month. The event occurs mainly in the western world sometimes it serves as protest for legal rights like same sex marriage,transgender rights etc, but it included celebration and love for being pride of being from the community.

The events have become global in nature- 

The biggest Pride parade was held in New York City in 2019 to commemorate Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 event for the largest homosexual march in the history of the United States of America as it attracted an estimated five million people in Manhattan only.

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Who created Pride Month?

The Gay and Lesbian Pride Month was officially inaugurated in the United States for the first time by the President Bill Clinton forty-five years after the first Pride Week celebration. Originally, it was launched in the early 1990s but was only limited to a few activities; however, in 2009, President Barack Obama broadened it, making June as the official LGBT Pride Month.

How did June 28th become Pride Day?

On the last Tuesday of June, as a part of the events to support the International Pride Day, during which bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transsexual people fight for their rights, people celebrate the Pride Day, which is assigned to the day of the beginning of the Stonewall riots.

What is the distinction between Pride Month and LGBTQ Month?

LGBT history month is held in October each year while pride month is held in June of each year but however, the normalized month for pride is June , the site states.

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