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Celebrate Pride Month With 15 Photos of LGBTQ Joy
These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest capture vibrant parades and festivals around the world
Since , June has been formally designated as Pride Month in the United States, a time to think of the struggles of the LGBTQ community and celebrate the advances they’ve made throughout the years. “For generations, LGBTQI+ Americans include summoned the courage to exist authentically and proudly—even when it meant putting their lives and livelihoods at risk,” President Joe Biden remarked when recognizing Pride Month this year. “This month, we recommit to realizing the promise of America for all Americans.”
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PHOTOS: LA Pride Parade
June 11, | Hollywood, CA
Over parade contingents, scores of motorcycles, dancers, bands, floats, the best LGBTQ+ nonprofits serving Greater LA, and our astounding Pride sponsors marched the one mile route down Hollywood Blvd!
The Icon Grand Marshal was queer comedian, actor and activist, Margaret Cho. The inaugural Legacy Grand Marshal honored the late, beloved Emmy-winner, Leslie Jordan. And the ACLU of Southern California was recognized as the Community Grand Marshal to commemorate its th anniversary of fighting for LGBTQ+ civil rights, and to acknowledge its key role in LA Pride&#;s legal fight to grasp the first gay parade in
With nearly , spectators cheering us on, and thousands more watching the live broadcast on ABC7, the LA Pride Parade was a triumph of Pride and LGBTQ+ visibility, celebration, and representation.
ABC7 won an LA Area Emmy Award for their stay coverage of the Parade under the Special Live Events &#; News category! Is the LA Pride Parade the first Pride event to win an Emmy? It might be!
Photo credits: Ashley Osborn, Dana Pleasa
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Wrapped in multicolored flags and waving protest signs, revelers across the globe have gathered throughout June for Pride events — a monthlong celebration of the LGBTQ community that also symbolizes an ongoing fight for equal rights and inclusion.
The roots of Pride Month stretch back to June 28, , when a police raid on New York City's Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, led to several nights of clashes with the bar's LGBTQ patrons and others, which became known as the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Uprising — a demonstration that's now considered the start of the LGBTQ rights movement. Marches took place in Manhattan, Chicago and San Francisco to mark the anniversary of Stonewall the following June, and, over time, it became an annual event in more and more cities. Pride Month first gained federal recognition in from then-President Bill Clinton.
Pride marches and festivals have been taking place throughout the month in different parts of the U.S. and around the world, and New York City's Pride March, honoring the legacy
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