Blog 31 - You Are Living a Life of Pretend!?!
People in the LGBTQIA+ community celebrated “Pride Month” in June. I had a sense as I would guess most people do, of what this was supposed to be about, but I wanted more information on how this movement started, so I did a bit of research. So, to give a very brief and cryptic historical summary based on my google query, I learned the following information: · Prior to June 1969 bars that hosted “gay” people would be raided · In June 1969, customers at the Stonewall Inn in New York protested · The issue grew bigger with mass protests occurring · Brenda Howard, reportedly a bisexual activist, organized a pride march on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Inn protest. · They use the rainbow flag to signify diversity and use “pride” to signify self-esteem in their choices Now ...