Why June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month
The short answer is Stonewall, but there's more to Pride history.
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May 17, 2025
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Amid Threat of Massacre, St. Croix Holds First Pride Parade
A Facebook user called for owners of assault rifles to gun down parade participants.
June 11, 2018
Troy Perry's pride
June 1970 saw the nation's first gay pride parades. Here, the unabridged recollection of L.A.'s maiden march, told by Metropolitan Community Church founder Troy Perry.
May 18, 2007
Vietnam to Begin Debate on Marriage Equality
The LGBT rights movement has made significant progress in the nation in the past few years.
June 22, 2013
What Makes San Diego Pride Unique? Hint: Uniforms
The LGBT celebration in "America's Finest City" is an interesting amalgam of liberal and conservative values.
July 19, 2017
PHOTOS: Cyprus Hosts First LGBT Pride, Despite Orthodox Protesters
The island nation welcomed thousands of LGBT citizens for its first official LGBT Pride celebration on Saturday.
June 3, 2014
PHOTOS: First Pride in Montenegro Brings Death Threats
"Kill the gays!" was the chant by antigay extremists at Montenegro's first Gay Pride parade.
July 25, 2013
PHOTOS: Capital Pride on Parade
The current Capital Pride celebration traces its history to the first LGBT festival in Washington, D.C., which was held in 1975. Saturday's festivities celebrated the 38th annual gay pride parade to take place in the U.S. capital.
June 10, 2013
Pride Fests Too Corporate, in Danger of Being Left Behind
It's time for our pride festivals to embrace their grassroots past and ditch their big business present, writes activist Alex Morash.
April 26, 2017
Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade Finally Goes Over the Rainbow
It will be worth braving the cold on Sunday.
March 13, 2015
LGBT Group Rejected From St. Patrick's Parade in Staten Island
The annual celebration of Irish heritage in the NYC borough will reportedly not allow LGBT organizations to participate.
March 3, 2018
Tel Aviv Pride Parade to Be World's First Bisexuality-Themed Parade
Israel's event, the largest Pride parade in the Middle East and Asia, addresses an oft-stigmatized part of the LGBT population.
May 10, 2017
New York's St. Pat's Inches Toward Inclusion
One LGBT organization was approved to march in the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City next year as a move toward officially ending the parade's ban on LGBT groups.
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September 3, 2014
Pride Has Always Been a Protest
As Los Angeles, Washington, and other cities prepare for marches Sunday, it's enlightening to remember Pride's roots.
June 10, 2017
Stars Hollow (and Small-Town America) Needs Gay Pride
The fictional town in the Gilmore Girls revival scrapped plans for Pride due to a lack of LGBT residents. Here's why that's a mistake.
November 29, 2016
Antigay Activist Doesn't Like Pride Parade Rules, Won't March
Bill Donohue has nixed plans to march in New York City's LGBT pride parade, saying he won't attend a required 'gay training session.'
March 21, 2014
Op-ed: The Night Belgrade's Gays Demanded Equality
The government may have rejected plans for an official Pride parade in Belgrade, but that didn't stop local LGBTs from storming the streets.
October 1, 2013