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Woodland Hill once again participated in the Albany Pride Parade on June 11. Over 60+ students, families, and staff were in attendance to enjoy the day! Thank you to the Diversity Committee for coordinating the event.

June is the Pride Month, an annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and their contributions to history, society, and cultures. June is chosen to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of June 1969. The Stonewall Inn, where the riot started, is a bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. The NYPD raided the inn on June 28, 1969, that resulted in a confrontation that lasted for six days. The event raised the gay rights movement from a fringe movement to front-page news worldwide. One year later the first Gay Pride Parade was organized. In June 2000 President Bill Clinton officially designated June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month; a more inclusive name of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month was chosen in 2009 by President Barak Obama.

Here is a very, very select list of historical LGBT people who changed the world : Alexander the Great, Sir Francis Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Florence Nightingale, Tchaikovsky, George Frideric Handel, Alan Turing, Sally Ride, Harvey Milk, James Baldwin, Oscar Wilde, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Franz Schubert … the list goes on and on and on!

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