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In Celebration of Pride Month
6. For the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1994, Gilbert Baker was commissioned to make the world’s largest rainbow flag. The flag used the six-stripe design that’s popular today, and measured thirty feet wide. The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed it as the largest flag in the world, but it has since lost the title. Baker made another giant rainbow flag in 2003 that stretched a mile and a quarter across Key West, Florida.
1. The “Mother of Pride” was a bisexual woman. Brenda Howard, a bisexual woman and lifelong militant activist, was known as the “Mother of Pride” for her work in organizing the Christopher Street Liberation Day March. Howard was also credited with laying the foundation for the week-long celebrations of Pride leading up the modern day Pride parades. She also co-founded the New York Bi7. Harvey Milk was an American sexual Network in 1988. politician who became the first 2. Europe has a Pan-European openly gay person to be elected to International Pride Event, called, public office in California. The critically-acclaimed 2008 film Milk, appropriately, Europride. starring Sean Penn, was based on 3. Amsterdam is the only city his life. whose Pride celebration literally floats on a river. The parade in- 8. Pride parades weren’t always volves 100 decorated boats that called Pride parades. When earsail through the city on the Prin- ly Pride events started, they were more militant, and were more often sengracht River. referred to as marches. “Gay Liber4. The oldest still-existing LGBT ation” or “Gay Freedom” were more organisation in the world is Neth- common names for those marches. erland’s Center for Culture and As militancy slowly decreased in Leisure (COC). Founded in 1946, the 1980s and 1990s, events moved it adopted a vague name to mask toward a parade-structure and the “Pride” language. its taboo purpose.
The brave activism displayed in the incident is considered the start of the gay liberation movement.
10. While the first U.S. Pride event can be traced back to 1970, the first Dyke March didn’t happen for 23 more years. Dyke Marches, which usually happen on the eve of Pride parades, were first organized by the radical activist group, The Lesbian Avengers. 11. The Pentagon has an LGBT Pride event. The Pentagon’s first Pride event was held in 2012. Gay members of the military talked about the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and the importance of being able to discuss their families and loved ones with fellow servicemen and women.
12. Records of same-sex relationships have been found in nearly every culture throughout history with varying degrees of acceptance. 5. The longest pride celebration 9. June was chosen to be the lasts three to four weeks in Sydney, LGBT Pride Month to commem- 13. The number of gays and Australia each February, ending orate the Stonewall riots, which lesbians in the U.S. is estimated took place in New York in June with Mardi Gras. 1969, when gay bars were illegal. to be approximately 8.8 million. | FRESNOFLYER.COM |
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