Learn the history of gay pride.

1. PRIDEOLOGY
The Study of Pride

2. LOVE AND HAPPINESS
To everyone that we work with, play with and create with!

3. MESSAGE FROM THE BOTTOMOLOGIST
• Students,
• From coast to coast, and all around the world; LGBT individuals are being
celebrated for their will to be different and not conform.
• We are here to teach unconditional love to all, daring to be different and not
conforming for the pacifying of others. We teach them that we are apart of
• many variations of infinite possibilities. In Stupid words, we are all unique and their is a
large variation of beings in this world and we vary in many aspects.
• The LGBT community is the boldest and relentlessly, standing strong in our
convictions. Convictions that are bold and not willing to fail. We celebrate our
prides across the world and here in the United States, the summer is pride
season. However, Pride began in a time that it could detrimental. However, brave
fabulous warriors began the resolution against all adversity.

4. Historical background
Gay equality activist Barbara Gittings picketing Independence Hall in 1965
Activists promoting
lesbian rights at Athens Pride 2012 in Greece
Pride precursors
Main article: List of LGBT actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots

5. Annual Reminders
The 1950s and 1960s in the United States was an extremely repressive legal and social period for LGBT people.
In this context American homophile organizations such as the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society
coordinated some of the earliest demonstrations of the modern LGBT rights movement. These two
organizations in particular carried out pickets called “Annual Reminders” to inform and remind
Americans that LGBT people did not receive basic civil rights protections. Annual Reminders began
in 1965 and took place each July 4 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
"Gay is Good"
The anti-LGBT discourse of these times equated both male and female homosexuality with mental illness. Inspired by Stokely Carmichael's "Black is
Beautiful",
Gay civil rights pioneer and participant in the Annual Reminders Frank Kameny originated the
slogan "Gay is Good" in 1968[2] to counter social stigma and personal feelings of guilt and shame.

6. Christopher Street Liberation Day
See also: Stonewall riots
Early on the morning of Saturday, 28 June 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning persons rioted following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 43 Christopher Street, New York
City. This riot and further protests and rioting over the following nights were the watershed moment in modern LGBT rights movement and the impetus for organizing LGBT pride marches on a much larger
public scale.
On November 2, 1969, Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Linda Rhodes proposed the first pride march to be held in New York City by way of a resolution at the Eastern Regional
Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO) meeting in Philadelphia.[3]
"That the Annual Reminder, in order to be more relevant, reach a greater number of people, and encompass the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged-that of our fundamental human
rights-be moved both in time and location.
We propose that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street and this demonstration be called
CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATION DAY. No dress or age regulations shall be made for this demonstration.
We also propose that we contact Homophile organizations throughout the country and suggest that they hold parallel demonstrations on that day. We propose a nationwide show of support.[4][5][6][7]
All attendees to the ERCHO meeting in Philadelphia voted for the march except for Mattachine Society of New York, which abstained.[4] Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) attended the meeting and
were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN).[8]
Meetings to organize the march began in early January at Rodwell's apartment in 350 Bleecker Street.[9]
At first there was difficulty getting some of the major New York organizations like Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) to send representatives. Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael
Brown, Marty Nixon, and Foster Gunnison of Mattachine made up the core group of the CSLD Umbrella Committee (CSLDUC). For initial funding, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donations from the
national homophile organizations and sponsors, while Sargeant solicited donations via the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop customer mailing list and Nixon worked to gain financial support from GLF in his
position as treasurer for that organization.[10][11] Other mainstays of the organizing committee were Judy Miller, Jack Waluska, Steve Gerrie and Brenda Howard of GLF.[12] Believing that more people would turn
out for the march on a Sunday, and so as to mark the date of the start of the Stonewall uprising, the CSLDUC scheduled the date for the first march for Sunday, June 28, 1970.[13] With Dick Leitsch's
replacement as president of Mattachine NY by "Michael Kotis" in April, 1970, opposition to the march by Mattachine ended.[14]
Brenda Howard is known as the "Mother of Pride", for her work in coordinating the march. Howard also originated the idea for a week-long series of events around Pride Day which became the genesis of the
annual LGBT Pride celebrations that are now held around the world every June.[15][16] Additionally, Howard along with fellow LGBT Activists Robert A. Martin (aka Donny the Punk) and L. Craig Schoonmaker
are credited with popularizing the word "Pride" to describe these festivities.[17] As LGBT rights activist Tom Limoncelli put it, "The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why [LGBT]
Pride Month is June tell them 'A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.'" [18]
There was little open animosity, and some bystanders applauded when a tall, pretty girl carrying a sign "I am a Lesbian" walked by. – The New York Times coverage of Gay Liberation Day, 1970[19]
Christopher Street Liberation Day on June 28, 1970 marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with an assembly on Christopher Street and the first Gay Pride march in U.S. history, covering the
51 blocks to Central Park. The march took less than half the scheduled time due to excitement, but also due to wariness about walking through the city with gay banners and signs. Although the parade permit
was delivered only two hours before the start of the march, the marchers encountered little resistance from onlookers.[20] The New York Times reported (on the front page) that the marchers took up the entire
street for about 15 city blocks.[19] Reporting by The Village Voice was positive, describing "the out-front resistance that grew out of the police raid on the Stonewall Inn one year ago".[21]

8. Spread
On the same weekend gay activist groups on the West Coast of the United States held a march
in Los Angeles and a march and 'Gay-in' in San Francisco.[22][23]
One day earlier, on Saturday, 27 June 1970, Chicago Gay Liberation organized a march[24] from
Washington Square Park ("Bughouse Square") to the Water Tower at the intersection of Michigan
and Chicago avenues, which was the route originally planned, and then many of the
participants extemporaneously marched on to the Civic Center (now Richard J. Daley) Plaza.[25]
The date was chosen because the Stonewall events began on the last Saturday of June and
because organizers wanted to reach the maximum number of Michigan Avenue shoppers.
Subsequent Chicago parades have been held on the last Sunday of June, coinciding with the
date of many similar parades elsewhere.
The next year, Gay Pride marches took place in Boston, Dallas, Milwaukee, London, Paris, West
Berlin, and Stockholm.[21] By 1972 the participating cities included Atlanta, Buffalo, Detroit,
Washington D.C., Miami, and Philadelphia,[26] as well as San Francisco.
A year later there was at least fifteen hundred. By two years later, to the extent that a count
could be made, it was twenty-five hundred."[28]

9. Similar to Kameny's regret at his own reaction to the shift in attitudes after the riots, Randy
Wicker came to describe his embarrassment as "one of the greatest mistakes of his life".[29]
The image of gays retaliating against police, after so many years of allowing such treatment
to go unchallenged, "stirred an unexpected spirit among many homosexuals".[29] Kay
Lahusen, who photographed the marches in 1965, stated, "Up to 1969, this movement was
generally called the homosexual or homophile movement.... Many new activists consider
the Stonewall uprising the birth of the gay liberation movement. Certainly it was the birth of
gay pride on a massive scale."[30]

11. 1980s and 1990s
In the 1980s there was a major cultural shift in the Stonewall Riot commemorations. The previous
loosely organized, grassroots marches and parades were taken over by more organized and less
radical elements of the gay community. The marches began dropping "Liberation" and "Freedom"
from their names under pressure from more conservative members of the community, replacing
them with the philosophy of "Gay Pride" (in the more liberal San Francisco, the name of the gay
parade and celebration was not changed from Gay Freedom Day Parade to Gay Pride Day
Parade until 1994). The Greek lambda symbol and the pink triangle which had been revolutionary
symbols of the Gay Liberation Movement, which is headed by were tidied up and incorporated
into the Gay Pride, or Pride, movement, providing some symbolic continuity with its more radical
beginnings. The pink triangle was also the inspiration for the homomonument in Amsterdam,
commemorating all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of
their homosexuality.
LGBT Pride Month
I call upon all Americans to observe this month by fighting prejudice and discrimination in their
own lives and everywhere it exists. – Proclamation by U.S President Barack Obama, May 31, 2011[31]

12. The month of June was chosen for LGBT Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which
occurred at the end of June 1969. As a result, many pride events are held during this month to
recognize the impact LGBT people have had in the world. Brenda Howard is known as the "Mother of
Pride", for her work in coordinating the first LGBT Pride march, and she also originated the idea for a
week-long series of events around Pride Day which became the genesis of the annual LGBT Pride
celebrations that are now held around the world every June.[15][16] Additionally, Howard along with
fellow LGBT rights activists Robert A. Martin (aka Donny the Punk) and L. Craig Schoonmaker are
credited with popularizing the word "Pride" to describe these festivities.[17] As LGBT rights activist Tom
Limoncelli put it, "The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why [LGBT] Pride
Month is June tell them 'A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.'" [18]
On several occasions, the President of the United States has officially declared a Pride Month. First,
President Bill Clinton declared June "Gay & Lesbian Pride Month" on June 2, 2000.[32] Then, in 2009,[33]
2010,[34] 2011,[31] 2012,[35] 2013,[36] and 2014[37] President Barack Obama declared June Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
Google marked any LGBT-related search results in June 2012 with a rainbow colored pattern
underneath search results.[38]

13. GAY HISTORY:A PRIDE PARADE FROM THE 1980'S

14. Coming Pt 2. Pride Events!
Pride has all sorts of events that make pride hot! This portion of the
blogumentary visits prides across the nation. We will bring out the colors of
the rainbow and share what pride is like in different parts of the country.
XOXO