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The most famous cause that initiated pride month started with the Stonewall Riot (Stonewall Uprising) which took place in June of 1969 in New York City and was a turning point for the LGBTQ+ community which continues to this day.
On the early morning of June 28, 1969, a police raid happened at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar and recreational tavern of Lower Manhatten, New York in which homosexuality was considered a criminal offense.
“Officers required patrons to line up and show their IDs and even forced several customers to be taken into the bathrooms in order to verify their sex.”
Dozens of customers were restrained if the sex on their IDs did not match their gender presentation, which caused dozens of bystanders to get rowdy outside the tavern, and chaos soon broke loose.
The police raid led to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park.
On the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots people stood with New York by simultaneously marching in Los Angeles and Chicago, and the pride parade was born.
The parade’s official chant was: “Say it loud, gay is proud.”
Until 1966 when it was overturned due to many activists, the New York State Liquor Authority penalized and shut down establishments that served alcohol to known or suspected LGBT individuals.
In 2016, then-president Barack Obama announced he would designate Christopher Park, as the Stonewall National Monument which is the first national monument dedicated to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights.
Over the decades, many groups and organizations have been created for resources and support for the LGBTQ+ community.
One of the organizations created includes Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Queer (LGBTQ) Center founded in May of 2020.
“The lasting impact of the stonewall riots has been established as an ongoing struggle for the LGBTQ rights”
To this day the annual pride march has still taken place during June, what we now all know as Pride Month.
For local support and resources for LGBTQ+ residents in the Santa Clarita Valley please visit here.
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Things to do in SCV: Bring your small children not only to a supposed Pride Parade but also to the local bar for a Proud Drag Queen dance & bring plenty of dollar bills for the children to stuff in the panties of the Drag Queens, remember, Somebody’s got to Lick it————Show your wonderful Pride, tolerating followers/lemmings
So you were there?
Oh that’s funny. Alas, he was busy drowning puppies and kicking old ladies for laughs no doubt.
If he was kicking you that would be hilarious. Like Point, Counterpoint. Love-Hate Relationship. Oil wrestling. Get a room!
LGBTQ = Lets Get Biden To Quit
Right NOW!
ALL OF YOU.
BACK IN THE CLOSET AND STAY THERE.
DONT ASK, DONT TELL!
WE DONT CARE. WE DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.
Max, truthful/accurate/decent words well spoken! How do we tell if someone/something is LGBTQXYZ in public, do they act/dress/behave different from normal prideful people?! Men & woman don’t scream/parade/fuss in public if they have Sodomy in the privacy of their bedrooms!
The demonstrated individuality of others shouldn’t frighten you. It’s their right as Americans.
Rainbows are for rainy days.
We want our Rainbow Trout back, too.
Go stifle yourselves behind closed doors.
So why are you so uncomfortable with it?
This NOT a mainstream issue. I do NOT want it in my face, everywhere, all the time.
Respectable professional normal socially conforming people do not behave like that in public. I can not take seriously a female veterinarian with a dangling nose ring, who was 100% Lesbian and Zero % professional veterinarian. I needed the professional part. I do not need annoying behaviors and physical facial mutilation, and her ungodly affection for my girl dog.
Don in moral knots, Decent/sane/normal humans are always uncomfortable seeing/experiencing bizarre & horrible things in public like heroin needles, human poop/pee/vomit, trash, graffiti around them! What supposed humans do in private is their right, but when it’s shoved down our throats or Drag Queens etc. parade it in front of innocent impressionable children & decent people, it goes to far! One can drink their own urine & have Golden Showers, but normal people don’t want to see it! It’s no one’s business, do it in private!
First time I heard of a golden shower was when an orange-haired man was in the news.
Anne in Wonderland, Glad you were made aware of that Liberal behavior by the conniving
lying Liberal media with more constant disparaging insanity!
You’re wrong.
So Ann, was it as good for you?
Disgusting remark.
Arn, why disgusting—-thought you folks had Pride
Sodomy (males inserting their penis in another males anus for sexual gratification), fellatio, TOYS. bodily fluids where God did not intend them, promiscuity and disease exchange behaviors. That is what they are protesting for. Yes, that makes me uncomfortable.
But, if you do it behind closed doors, I wont even know. Stay there.
Since the AIDS epidemic there are much fewer prancing fairies celebrating “pride” in public.
Move on & keep your own life in order.