Pride 2021:
The Fight Continues
Pride Goes Virtual
JUNE 4, 2021
In the wake of the pandemic, the Global Pride event kicked off celebrations with a 24-hour livestream, the first worldwide LGBTQ event, with the Black Lives Matter movement at its forefront. Todrick Hall hosted the stream consisting of music, performances, speeches and messages of support.
The event united world leaders such as President Joe Biden with Pride trailblazers like Laverne Cox and Adam Lambert and hundreds of organizations, showing solidarity and unity behind this momentous cause.
NYC Pride has unveiled its theme as “The Fight Continues,” reflecting the multiple battles both the city and the country is fighting right now.
With the pandemic surging on, persistent systemic racism and police brutality, climate disasters and discrimination against the trans community, the theme reminds us all to keep fighting. There is more work to be done.
For more than 20 years before her death in 2006, she fought tirelessly for gay rights and linked the civil rights movement with the LGBT rights movement, believing all the while that her work was a faithful expression of the inclusive dream shared by her husband.
Lambda Legal is Born
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, better known as Lamda Legal was founded in 1973 as the nation’s first legal organization dedicated to achieving full equality for lesbian and gay people.
Pride Gets a Rainbow
In 1974, artist and drag queen Gilbert Baker met Harvey Milk, an influential gay leader, who three years later challenged Baker to come up with a symbol of pride for the gay community.
The original gay six-color pride flag flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978. Baker chose colors that had happy, positive meaning not only to represent the vitality of the queer community, but also to replace the darkness of the pink triangle, which was the most prominent gay symbol at the time.
First-Ever Pride Parade
The idea that LGBTQ+ people would march through the streets of New York City, proudly declaring their existence, their pride and their love was truly revolutionary.
That first Pride parade was held on June 28, 1970. Known then as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March — named after the street on which Stonewall is located — the parade began on Washington Place between Sheridan Square and Sixth Avenue and moved up Sixth Avenue, ending with a “Gay-In” in Central Park.
June 27, 2020
A Pride Superhero
May 7, 2018
Comedian, writer and funny-woman Lena Waithe graced the 2018 Met Gala in a cape adorned with the colors of the Pride flag.
The theme of the 2018 Met Gala "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," made Waithe think differently about how she views religion. Instead of physically dressing like she's actually going to church, Waithe chose to embody what God means to her. "You talk about church and Catholicism, it's about—you were made in God's image...The theme to me is be yourself," Waithe told Complex magazine on the red carpet that evening.
LOVE WINS
The US Supreme Court finally and officially declared same-sex marriage a Constitutional right nationwide, meaning all states must allow Americans to get married, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation.
The vote was narrow - 5-4 - but Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion was clear and firm: “The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry." The ruling will put an end to same-sex marriage bans in the 14 states that still maintain them, and provide an exclamation point for breathtaking changes in the nation’s social norms in recent years. As recently as last October, just over one-third of the states permitted gay marriages.
June 26, 2015
Two Women Say I Do
May 17, 2004
Tanya McCloskey and Marcia Kadish didn't set out to make headlines when they got married on May 17, 2004.
That morning, McCloskey and Kadish were the first same-sex couple to get legally married in the U.S. after being together for nearly 20 years. Their legal marriage — and the hundreds of others performed for same-sex couples across the state that day — were the result of a ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which had declared in November 2003 that same-sex couples had the legal right to marry in the state.
Coretta Scott King
Calls to End Homophobia
On March 31, 1998, at the 25th anniversary luncheon for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, acvitist and wife of Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King said "I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.... But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King, Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'”
March 31, 1998
JAN, 1 1973
June 25, 1978
June 28, 1969
Stonewall Riots Spark New Beginnings
The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
June 28, 1970
The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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