Pride Month: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Community and History

From Stonewall to Presidential Recognition

WEB LGBT Pride Month, often shortened to Pride Month, is a month typically June dedicated to celebration and commemoration of lesbian gay. . WEB May 23 2022 914 AM PDT Updated June 1 2024 1200 PM PDT Pride Month is official here bringing events marches parades. WEB First President Bill Clinton declared June Gay Lesbian Pride Month in 1999 and 2000 Then from 2009 to 2016 each year he was in office President Barack

The Stonewall Riots and the Birth of Pride

Pride Month is celebrated in the month of June as that was the month when the Stonewall riots took place. The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+ community in response to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York City on June 28, 1969. The riots are widely considered to be the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.