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It’s that time of the year again; rainbow-covered items have begun popping up around town, be they banners on street-posts or items in stores that have a rainbow-themed pattern with ‘PRIDE’ plastered somewhere on it. It feels like it’s been an annual thing for some years now, or as far as I can recall since I went to that giant ‘pride parade’ downtown what might’ve been a good ten years ago by now.
Also the time when I often hear fellow workmates or friends scoff at the idea of it being ‘gay pride’ month. Turning down my suggestions that we dip downtown and check out the parade because, ‘why is there no straight pride parade?’ Or if they’re typically a good bit older, saying they’re not interested in checking out ‘gay propaganda’.
Now, I never really bothered to look into the answers to why there is so much media about LGBTQ+ pride. How come we never read or hear about the same things having gone on in our parents or grandparents time, save for Woodstock? I mean, there’s typically a catalyst of some sort for every movement that really kicks it into motion so colour me surprised when I read up on the history behind gay pride month.
Gay Americans living in the 1950s and 1960s faced an anti-gay legal system. Homosexual groups in the U.S. at that time sought to show that gay people could be assimilated into society, favouring non-confrontational education for homosexuals and heterosexuals alike.
There were very few establishments who welcomed gay people. The ones that did were usually bars, namely The Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Inn was run by the Mafia, and was known to be popular among the poorest and most marginalized people in the gay community: butch lesbians, effeminate young men, drag queens, male prostitutes, and transgender people.. In the fall of 1959, the New York police force began closing down the city's gay bars, which had numbered almost two dozen in Manhattan at the beginning of the year.
The election of John Lindsay as mayor in 1965 signaled a major shift in NYC politics, and a new attitude toward sexual behaviors began changing the social atmosphere of New York.
On April 21, 1966, it was declared that it was illegal for homosexuals to congregate and be served alcoholic beverages in bars.
An example of when these laws had been upheld is when Gloria's, a bar that had been closed for such violations, fought the case in court and lost. Prior to this change in the law, the business of running a gay/lesbian bar would often involve paying bribes to the police and Mafia.
Regardless, most gay bars were quickly closed and new ones lasted only a short time. Despite police raids on gay bars being almost routine throughout the 1960s, officers quickly lost control of the situation at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969.
And so it began…
In the early hours of the morning, five uniformed police officers joined forces with four undercover police, who were already stationed inside the bar.
Because the patrol wagons responsible for transporting the arrested patrons and the alcohol from the bar took longer than expected, the raid did not go as planned. This little bit of extra time was all that was needed for a crowd of released patrons and by-standers to grow outside of the Inn. The crowd swelled as the night went on. So much so that the police officers eventually became so afraid of the crowd that they refused to leave the bar for up to 45 minutes!
The straw that broke the camel’s back in what had been building up for years was when a woman in handcuffs was escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon several times. She managed to get out of the wagon and proceeded to repeatedly fight with four of the police, swearing and shouting. Bystanders recalled that the woman sparked the crowd to fight when she looked at bystanders and shouted,
"Why don't you guys do something?!"
After an officer picked her up and heaved her into the back of the wagon, the crowd became explosively violent.
As riots typically go, the more the police force tried to restrain some of the crowd, knowing a few people down, the more riled up bystanders became. The riots would go on to escalate to the point where the Tactical Police Force (TPF) of the New York City Police Department were called in to help free the police officers trapped inside the Stonewall.
Tensions between New York City police and gay residents of Greenwich Village erupted into more protests the next evening, and again several nights later. Within weeks, Village residents quickly organized into activist groups to concentrate efforts on establishing places for gay men and lesbians to be open about their sexual orientation without fear of being arrested.
After the Stonewall riots had quieted down, gay men and lesbians in New York City faced gender, race, class, and generational obstacles to finally being able to become a more cohesive community. Within six months, two gay activist organizations were formed in New York. A year after the uprising, to mark the anniversary on June 28, 1970, the first gay pride marches took place in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The anniversary of the riots was also commemorated in Chicago and similar marches were organized in other cities. Within a few years, gay rights organizations were founded across the U.S. and the world.
CUE LGBT PRIDE MONTH BEING CELEBRATED ON A GLOBAL LEVEL
LGBT Pride Month occurs in the United States 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. Beginning in 2012, Google even displayed some LGBT-related search results with different rainbow-colored patterns each year during June. In 2017, Google also included rainbow coloured streets on Google Maps to display Gay Pride marches occurring across the world.
So, back to the question- why is there no month or festivities celebrating being straight?
Because Congress has yet to pass a law requiring people to hide the fact they are straight. The streets are not filled with children who have been kicked out of their homes for being straight. It’s not the norm to see stories in the news in which someone has been beaten, tied to a fence and left to die or shot in the face at point blank range because they were straight.
Gay pride month may seem like a band-aid solution to raising more awareness for the LGBTQ+ community to many, but remember; it was the norm to be arrested for nothing more than belonging to such communities less than a century ago!
As a result, it seems pretty fitting that every liberty be celebrated.
EDIT- the title was intended to be nothing more than click-bait. I was aware that there's no need to raise awareness for an orientation/gender-identity that is held by the majority. However, my curiosity definitely got the best of me when I heard many peers/coworkers asking the question in all seriousness. Hence, I took it upon myself to look into the history behind 'gay pride month' and learn more about what actual events were involved in how it came to be.
What Girls & Guys Said
29 80Liberals do not need to pander for straight votes. If they did there would be. I have often said if you follow the "evolution' of the party on gay marriage and illegal immigration you might see why i say if pedophila is ever legal it will be because liberals find a way to turn it into votes.
The age of consent is 16 in some states so why would having sex with 8 year olds ever be legal? This guy.
Great my take. It really saddens me to read the comments on this and see how many people are so anti lgbt. Love is love ✌🌈
Man, I was all ready to waltz in here and be like "every month is straight fucking pride month, you ditzy bitch" but then you turned it all around and talked about Stonewall. Good job.
Bc no one has ever been killed or harassed for being straight, also it has never been illegal to be stright. Pride mouth is to show that gay people exist and to help educated people.
Until it just became a way of companys to make money
Because they get the whole year of not having to fight for their right
If you heteros feel like celebrating, do it. Or don’t. Literally your choice.
Beautifully written. Perhaps you should write professionally.
Why isn't there Straight Pride Month? Easy answer cause LGBTQ+ community separate themselves from straight people which in it's self is them trying to avoid been all 1 in 1 maybe one day they will realize this simple fact and just call it been normal and not needing a whole LGBTQ+ thing? Cause it would be really dumb for it to be SLGBTQ+ S of course been straight.
Because clearly who we are aexually attracted to is worthy of no pride, no interest, no concern or acknowledgement in any way at all.
Are you gay?
I do not give a crap.
Rainbows are a beautiful sign in nature, I do not assign them or acknowledge them in any way as being stolen by those obsessed with proclaiming their stupid sex lives.
I am basically sick of bitching victim groups.
Anyone who knows a lot of world history knows how freaking blessed anyone in the USA is... that is why MILLIONS are always trying to come here.
Any improvements the USA needs?
Those are done by tweaks in the most successful, free country.
To hell with all those who want a revolution and to tear it all down.
Those who know history knows how horrific all these historical revolutions were.
Amazing MyTake 👏👏👏
Nothing superior happened here. Who people bed down with is none of my business. Gays don't want me bringing my bedroom politics to them, well, it's time for that to be a two way street. Live their lives and leave everyone else out of it.
If you are Christian and believe in God, read the book of Romans. Being gay is a sin!
It's very true!
@Trooper205 The bible was written by male human beings.
That is also very true.
True... And whatever was written was through the guidance of God and the Holy Spirit. God revealed whatever was written by these men to them through dreams and visions.
I see that you included MEN in your opinion. Seems to me that you are trying to convince yourself that men of the past were typical prone to detest homosexuality, because they were MEN. You must have also missed out the fact that lesbianism is also a sin. The prophets put that too in writing.. Women will abandon natural relations.. that's in the book of Romans
I love you Bethmelan123. But I don't support the bible or Christianity's god. And when we all die I will be there to tell you I told you so. And when you review your life, after death please make sure to reread this comment.
Because straight people are not discriminated against
Straight / heterosexual is the status quo, the standard of “normal” , and the majority.
Awareness for the normal and abundant is not needed!
Awareness is needed for the minority / alternative, because said groups face discrimination due to not being “normal / status quo”.
Im not no SJW but it super annoying when people say stuff like that. People who are straight have never been discriminated against purely base on their sexuality. I have never heard of a straight person being disowned by their family, killed, beaten, imprisoned or fired because of their sexuality.
The only thing that slightly annoys me about pride is that when they have parades it's mostly half naked people twerking with a dildo on the head or something like that, that paint all gay people with the same brush and stops them from being taken seriously. Not all gay people acts outrageously flamboyant most are normal people like everyone else and i feel like nothing ever comes from these pride months, nothing is ever achieved instead its seen as a excuse to party, when there is still lots of work that needs to be done with Society and the gay community for example they could be raising awareness for gay abuse and murder victims that the police have been ignoring for years and religious and cultural persecution against gay people.
Why should gay people have pride in being gay? Being gay isn't an achievement.
@Twenty2 honestly im a 16 year old girl and didn't invent pride. I don't really see it as a big deal myself, gay people are just people these days like everyone else in most civilised countries but i can also understand why they'd want to stand together and tell the world they are not ashamed of who they are to help others who are struggling to come out. I have a gay friend and his family are very old fashioned i remember him being absolutely terrified of being to be the person he wanted to be, out and proud. He didn't want people seeing or treating him differently just because of his sexuality to the point hed tried to commit suicide multiple times. As one of his friends he came out to it was heart breaking to see. Eventually he got the help he needed and met people like him, who let him feel normal and himself without judgement. I think pride is more about supporting each other to be there self with out fear of being judge in a safe place. You might not want to amit this but it's a lot easier being straight, you have no one making jokes behind your back about your sexuality, you don't have to care of what you're friends and family might think and your sexuality is just seen as normal by most people. No one would blink a eye if you turned around and said you like women. In some community it is still very scary coming out as gay and terrible things are still happening to gay people to date. you just don't hear about it on the news. Its exactly brave coming out as gay and pride encourages others to be brave and come out i guess is the conclusion of all of it.
I highly recommen you watch some of these videos and possibly educate yourself on how being gay is still extremely dangerous for many people around the world to be open about.
I even remember watching one documentary about a gang in Russia cat fishing young gay men on dating apps and kidnapping them and torturing them and filming it to put online. Mainly videos including them stripping these men naked beating them and throwing boiling hot water on them.
https://youtu.be/AZ_aSl3ktjg
https://youtu.be/kbdNh6p8RKo
https://youtu.be/fnuBGF5-Gdc
https://youtu.be/ouE8NnLH1_0
I still don't understand tbh. I feel we should take Pride in our achievements. You're saying that it's hard being gay and gay men are beaten, it's hard living in this world. People have become so nuts, they don't care. You know being gay is against Islam. Have you ever seen any of these Pride matches or whatever the fuck it is speak on that. They won't. Because they are scared. All I see in today's gay pride is guys and girls saying yeah we like same sex as if other people care. The only people care are his/her friends and if they were straight then also only their friends would have cared.
@Twenty2 if you actually read my comment fully you would see i mentioned this myself so i don't see why you are targeting me
" instead its seen as a excuse to party, when there is still lots of work that needs to be done with Society and the gay community for example they could be raising awareness for gay abuse and murder victims that the police have been ignoring for years and religious and cultural persecution against gay people"
Not long ago there was a murderer in London of 3 gay men, the police deemed as a terrorist attack. But no one will question why these men were targeted these when it's pretty obvious why.
www.theguardian.com/.../reading-attack-victims-praised-as-the-loveliest-people
Its this a extremely dangerous world to be in if your gay, yet the LGBT community are silenced whenever speaking out about this or are to scared to be called racist
Have you ever heard of ex muslim, ex Christian festivals? Their families disown them when they come out as ex whatever the religion. According to Sharia, if you leave Islam. You're killed. A lot of discrimination happens due to a lot of reasons. I don't see people being proud of being discriminated against. I just don't understand the concept of Pride tbh. This concept that you're a special just because you're different doesn't make sense. Only unless humans started treating other humans as friends. I don't think discrimination is going to end and being friends and being humble isn't something to be proud of.
I just hate your comment saying "straight people haven't been discriminated against purely base on their sexuality". So what if they haven't? They still have faced discrimination. Should they start doing pride march for whatever discrimination they faced?
Recently, there was a pride march in Kashmir, a lot of Kashmiri started saying that they'll kill anyone who dares to do gay shit in Islam occupied land. They say the same shit when Hindus Live there. Like "we'll kill anyone who dares to do idolatry in Islam occupied land".
@Twenty2 i think your getting what i was saying wrong. I didn't say i support pride parades but i encourage them to spread awareness for gay causes instead when it's pride month not twerking in a crop top with a dildo on their head and instead speaking out against the injustices gay people are still facing today. I see parades as harmless and just abit of fun but i think if they do it they should do it with abit more respect and class. Im not wasting tax money on the police and roads being blocked off so a drag queen can hold a rainbow flag and do the splits if he isn't achieving something whilst doing it. Seems pointless if there is no real message
Same reason there isn't a "White History" month.
Because straight people don’t live with the fear of being straight..
if you pick your nose in public, people will treat you differently too...
@eschneider Unrelated but ok.
Im sick of it. Firstly i detest labels... divide and conquer and idiots fall for it. But also its a social agenda to keep us fighting against each other. I am disturbed by how its creeoing into children schooling at an age where they think more about climbing trees than their fucking sexuality. All part of Agenda 21/30.
You shouldn't have pride in doing what is normal.
Being gay isn't normal?
Not what I said. Being straight is normal. 95% of the population is straight. You shouldn't be prideful of brag about being like everyone else.
@AllThatSweetJazz no it is not normal thank you for aknowledging that.
... no, being gay is not “normal”
@Prof_Don It sure isn't!
So being abnormal is pride-worthy?
being straight is not a nwo thing, therefore it will never get any sort of pride and attention