This June marks the 52nd celebration of Pride Month, a time when people come together in support of the LGBTQIA+ community. Pride Month is celebrated each June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall uprising, to protest against injustice and inequality and to recognize the impacts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) individuals….
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Celebrate PRIDE! Month in June
PRIDE! Month is commemorated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City. In June of 1969, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn staged an uprising to resist the police harassment and persecution to which LGBTQIA+ Americans were commonly subjected. This uprising marked the beginning of a…