The history of Pride Month dates back to 1969, when the Stonewall Inn gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village was the site of a police raid that triggered riots and ignited a long struggle to bring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people into the American mainstream and guarantee their rights.
Digital Desk: Pride Month is observed in the month of June. This month is
dedicated to individuals who were involved in the Stonewall Riots, a series of
gay liberation protests in 1969. Every year on June 28, Pride Day is observed.
In 1999 and 2000, Bill Clinton was the first US President to
officially recognise Pride Month. Later that year, President Barack Obama
declared the location of a pivotal event in the history of LGBT rights in the
United States, the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, as a national
monument, the first to recognise the accomplishments of gay Americans.
History of Pride month
and how it started:
The
history of Pride Month dates back to 1969, when the Stonewall Inn gay bar in
Manhattan's Greenwich Village was the site of a police raid that triggered
riots and ignited a long struggle to bring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
people into the American mainstream and guarantee their rights.
The
events of late June and early July 1969 in New York helped to launch the
contemporary American gay rights movement.
The Stonewall riots were a week of violent
battles on Christopher Street between clients of the Stonewall Inn and police
who had stormed the pub on a regular basis, detaining gays under morality laws
of the time.
Countries that
recognises Pride month
The
US Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage in all 50 states in 2015. In
India, transgender individuals were officially recognised as a "third
gender" in 2014, and the Supreme Court later declared sexual orientation
as a basic right to privacy in 2017. In 2018, a major decision overturned a
colonial-era legislation and decriminalised homosexuality. The Supreme Court
declared in 2022 that unmarried partners or same-sex couples were eligible to
social benefits. In 2023, the Supreme Court is examining petitions seeking
legal recognition of same-sex marriages.
List
of countries where same-sex marriages are legal: Costa Rica (2020), Northern
Ireland (2019), Ecuador (2019), Taiwan (2019), Austria (2019), Australia
(2017), Malta (2017), Germany (2017), Colombia (2016), United States (2015),
Greenland (2015), Ireland (2015), Finland (2015), Luxembourg (2014), Scotland
(2014), England and Wales (2013), Brazil (2013), France (2013), New Zealand
(2013), Uruguay (2013), Denmark (2012), Argentina (2010), Portugal (2010),
Iceland (2010), Sweden (2009), Norway (2008), South Africa (2006), Spain
(2005), Canada (2005), Belgium (2003), The Netherlands (2000).
Apart
from the United States, countries like India, UK, Canada, Brazil, Austria,
Ireland, New Zealand also mark the month of June as pride month.
