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Get Ready for Pride Month: Explore LGBTQ History

April 3, 2024

| By Gale Staff | At 1:20 a.m. on June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, swarming the 205 people present. It wasn’t the first time. Typically, these raids targeted patrons that the police believed were assigned male at birth (AMAB) dressed as women. Female officers would take anyone wearing … Read more

Exploring LGBTQ+ Equality

June 22, 2023

| By Elizabeth Mohn | LGBTQ+ equality and rights are prominent topics in the United States and other places around the world because June is known as Pride Month, during which people of different backgrounds learn about LGBTQ+ history and educate themselves about the current events impacting LGBTQ+ communities around the world. Gale In Context: High … Read more

Learning about the Present through the History of LGBTQ Pride Month

June 1, 2022June 1, 2022

| By Elizabeth Mohn | Students are more likely to be engaged and interested in current events when they understand the context of those events. Educators can help students contextualize current news stories by teaching about the past. June is LGBTQ Pride Month in the United States, and educators can help students better understand Pride … Read more

Pride Parades throughout the Years: Celebration and Resistance

March 20, 2018June 23, 2017

During LGBTQ Pride Month, we celebrate this community and the impact its members have had on local, national, and international history. Pride is celebrated each June in honor of the Stonewall Uprising, which took place in 1969 in Manhattan. Ever since Pride began as a single-day commemoration in 1970, marches and parades have been part … Read more

Pride Month Resources for High School Students

June 13, 2017

| By Traci Cothran | Last Sunday marked the very first Pride Parade in my small town here in Michigan—it’s a lovely place but one whose history is characterized more by exclusivity than acceptance. It’s wonderful to witness the changes that have occurred, and I was delighted to spy several local school teachers marching alongside … Read more

7 Primary Sources to Celebrate Harvey Milk Day

March 20, 2018May 22, 2017

On May 22nd, we celebrate Harvey Milk Day in honor of Harvey Milk – the visionary civil and human rights leader who became one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. In 1977, Milk won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk is most known for his authenticity … Read more

Archives of Sexuality & Gender and Pride Month

February 26, 2018June 10, 2016

Posted June 10, 2016

By: Reggie Brown and Tara Blair

LGBTQ Pride Month is underway. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community and supporters have celebrated the month of June as “Pride Month” to honor the 1969 stonewall riots in Manhattan. Pride Month, was once “Gay Pride Day” the last Sunday in June, but has since grown to the current month long celebration.

In New Your City, just after 3 a.m., police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club. The streets turned violent as patrons and sympathizers in the area began to riot against the police. While police were justified legally to raid due to the club serving liquor without a license, the gay community at that time had grown increasingly agitated with the police department targeting of clubs for the gay community. The riot was followed by several days of demonstrations and considered a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States.

Leach, Dawn. “Evenings Out.” Gay People’s Chronicle 13 Sept. 1996. Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity. Web. 10 June 2016