myversionofyou Hello and welcome back to My Version of You I hope you all are safe, healthy, and doing extremely well. So, today I am going to talk about pride month ????.
I think many of us don’t know much about How pride month started? Origin of rainbow flag? Or origin? Why do people celebrate it? Or why it is only celebrated in June? And what is the pride symbol? And much much more!!
But if many of you know then I think I am the only one who is living under the rock!
So, without further ado, let’s go straight to this colorful world, and let’s see what it has to share.
“There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.”
– Chris Colfer
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.”
– Tennessee Williams
June is Pride Month, and even though it may seem different this year without the regular parades and get-togethers because of the coronavirus, that does not mean that we shouldn’t be celebrating and cherishing the work of the LGBTQ+ activists who have changed the world. So, that they can be accepted for the way they are.
What is Pride Month?
Pride Month is a complete month devoted to the elevating of LGBTQ+ voices, a celebration of LGBTQ+ culture, and the back of LGBTQ+ rights. Throughout June, across the globe, there have traditionally been parades, protests, drag performances, live theatre and memorials, and celebrations of life for individuals of the community who lost their lives to HIV/AIDS.
It is part of political activism, part celebration of all the LGBTQ+ community has accomplished over the years.
Who Celebrates it?
Pride events are organized that way so that anyone who feels like their sexual identity falls outside the mainstream, although numerous straight individuals join in, too.
LGBT is an acronym meaning lesbian, queer, bisexual, and transgender. The term sometimes is extended to LGBTQ+ “plus,” which represents other sexual identities including pansexual, asexual and omnisexual, or even LGBTQIA, to incorporate queer, intersex, and asexual groups.
Queer is an umbrella term for non-straight individuals; intersex refers to those whose sex isn’t clearly defined because genetic, hormonal, or biological differences; and asexual depicts those who do not involve sexual attraction.
These terms may moreover include gender-fluid individuals or those whose gender identity shifts over time or depending on the situation.
Where did the name Pride come from?
It’s attributed to Brenda Howard, a bisexual woman and a New York activist nicknamed the “Mother of Pride,” who organized the first Pride parade to honor the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.
What is the Pride Symbol?
You probably knew that the rainbow flag.
It was created by craftsman Gilbert Baker in 1978 and is used as an image of LGBTQ pride, but did you know that each color on the flag has its meaning? Within the widely known six-color flag, red is a symbol of life, orange is symbolic of healing, yellow is sunshine, green is nature, blue represents harmony and purple is the spirit.
In the unique eight-color flag, hot pink was included to represent sex and turquoise to represent magic/art.
There have been many variations on the flag. This year, the flag has been altered in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests, counting black to represent diversity, brown to represent inclusivity and light blue and pink, the colors of the trans pride flag.
What’s the origin of the Rainbow flag?
In 1978, an incredible artist named Gilbert Baker was employed by San Francisco city official Harvey Milk. He was one of the first openly gay elected authorities within the US.
To make a flag for the city’s upcoming Pride celebrations. Baker, a noticeable cheerful rights activist, gave a nod to the stripes of the American flag but drew inspiration from the rainbow to reflect the many groups within the gay community.
A subset of a flag that can speak to other sexualities on the spectrum, such as bisexual, pansexual, and asexual.
Why is it celebrated in June?
It’s celebrated in June to coincide with the spur of the Gay Freedom Movement that was the Stonewall Uprising.
In the early morning of June 28, 1969, police raided a popular gay bar in N.Y.C.’s West Village, The Stonewall Inn. This was commonplace for the time but on this specific evening, the supporters of the bar fought back, beginning the Stonewall Riots, which went on for days.
The Inn was announced a historic landmark by the city of New York in 2015 and later named a national monument by President Barack Obama in 2016.
This June 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the first Pride parade, which happened in 1970, one year after the uprising.
How can you celebrate Pride 2020?
Celebrations this year will look very different because of the coronavirus pandemic with social distancing, with almost no pride parade, very few individuals on the streets with their amazing color full outfits but we can try to celebrate it virtually?
Video calls, group chats, and the trending concept webinar could be arranged for a discussion or like a platform where anyone could share their thoughts, their struggles or even can talk in general. Many of us can write, poems, article, there thoughts, and experiences and many more things could be done which is possible in your safe environment ????
And I think it’s the best time to come forward as a human being without belonging to any community just to show your support, to observe, listen, and be educated.
Are you ready to be educated????
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