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Capital Pride parade, participated in a 5K run, and held a panel discussion.
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Here at Joint Base Andrews, we have honored Pride Month in a number of ways with the first full scale celebration in 2017 with the theme “LGBT: I am an American Airman.” During the month, Airmen served as parade marshals for the Washington, D.C. Our party will mark the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York. The Department of Defense celebrated its first Pride Month in June of 2012 following the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in 2011. K4 is a part of the pride parade week yet again. On 1 June 2021, President Joe Biden declared June LGBTQ Pride Month. The parade was launched as a 2,000-person march in 1970 to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, with chants of Say it loud, gay is proud. Gay Pride Parade marks 40 years after NYC uprising Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sundays gay pride. Organized by the Heritage of Pride organization, the march proceeds down Fifth Avenue and finishes in Greenwich Village, passing by the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots on Christopher Street. New York’s annual Heritage of Pride Parade, scheduled for Sunday, June 25, has been a central part of New York’s cultural life for the past 45 years. We lined up at 11:30 am, didnt make Fifth Avenue until 2:30pm and finally crossed the finish line in the West Village around 6:30pm. The federal government first recognized the month in 1999 when President Bill Clinton declared June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month.” In 2009, President Barack Obama declared June LGBT Pride Month. 25, 2011 New York Citys 40th annual Gay Pride parade takes place this Sunday on June 29. Slideshow: NYC Pride 2009 We had a great group of NYC bloggers march with us in yesterdays parade, but holy cow that thing took forever. Pride Month was first recognized in 1994 when a coalition of education-based organizations in the United States designated October as LGBT History Month. America’s first gay pride parade was held on the one-year anniversary of the riots. Photo By: Lee/Everett Collection First LGBTQ group to march under their own banner in the forty-fourth history of the Irish American Day/Brooklyn St. Angered by police harassment and social discrimination, the events of June 28th sparked six days of protests and galvanized the gay rights movement. Marchers at 2009 New York City Gay Pride Parade, New York, NY June 28, 2009. The Stonewall Riots occurred due to a raid by New York City police on the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village on June 28th, 1969. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally. In June, we celebrate and recognize Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.