4 Things to Know About Gay Pride

Each month of June, the streets of cities around the world fill of feathers, leather and flags of the annual Rainbow for gay pride celebrations. In fact, the month is dedicated to the celebration of sexual diversity. If you are at the head of an event of this weekend, here are four pieces of trivia that you can raise in the conversation.

He started in NYC. June 28, 1969, New York City police officers City made a descent in a Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn gay bar and inadvertently began the modern gay rights movement. Although the raids on bars frequented by gay patrons were common, this time, clients have resisted, riots and protest against discrimination for four nights. Gay pride events each month of June began as a commemoration of this historic event. It is celebrated around the world. Half a million people attend the pride parades in Paris on 27 June every year, and the movement is spreading religious countries such as the Italy and Israel. South Africa is home to the only gay pride parades in Africa.It has become more dominant in the years 80 In the 1980s, the commemoration of the Stonewall riots become less radical and more organized in the United States. Today, families and children come out to celebrate the positive message of self-acceptance in such cities as San Francisco and New York.Bill Clinton was official. Bill Clinton said June Gay and lesbian pride month at the United States. President Obama has since renamed LGBT Pride month, despite his reluctance to support gay marriage.

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