{"id":3669,"date":"2022-06-10T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2022-06-10T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:31:45","slug":"an-historical-look-at-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/2022\/06\/10\/an-historical-look-at-pride-month\/","title":{"rendered":"An Historical Look at Pride Month:"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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New York Times photo by Michael Evans (29 June 1970).<\/p><\/div>\r\n

Today Pride Month<\/a> is a month-long celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender\/Transexual, Queer\/Questioning (LGBTQ+) people. There are many activities across the country and the globe that bring awareness of the LGBTQ+ triumphs and struggles.\u00a0 The first Gay Pride\u00a0 gathering<\/a> took place on June 28, 1970, with a march led by Gay activist groups in New York City in honor of the Stonewall Uprising<\/a> of the previous June in Manhattan.\u00a0 The uprising at Stonewall Inn<\/a> occurred when the police raided the well-known Gay bar and encountered resistence.\u00a0 These riots went on for six consecutive nights.\u00a0 These marches or parades continued to be an annual event until it finally evolved into a month-long celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Check out our display case for books regarding current issues within the LGBTQ+ community.\u00a0 There’s also a display of fiction and memoir on the table near the elevators.\u00a0 For more New York Times articles use the A-Z Databases on the homepage to access the New York Times with Index database.\u00a0 There you will find primary sources about many more historic moments in Pride history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today Pride Month is a month-long celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender\/Transexual, Queer\/Questioning (LGBTQ+) people. There are many activities across the country and the globe that bring awareness of the LGBTQ+ triumphs and struggles.\u00a0 The first Gay Pride\u00a0 gathering took place on June 28, 1970, with a march led by Gay activist groups in New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lPyb-Xb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}