The LGBT Pride Parade is a series of events that take place every year around the world during the month of June, considered LGBTQIAPN+ Pride month. However, many people don’t know why June is the official month of celebration. So, if you’ve always wanted to know the reason behind it, read on and find out.
Pride month: the origin
According to researchers, the origin of pride month is due to the demonstrations that took place on June 28, 1969, in the United States.
That’s because, on this date, the Stonewall Rebellion took place – a series of violent and spontaneous demonstrations by members of the LGBTGIAPN+ community against a New York police raid that took place in the early hours of the morning at the Stonewall Inn bar.
These riots are widely regarded as the most important event that led to the modern gay liberation movement and the fight for LGBTQIAPN+ rights in the country.
The effects of the Stonewall Rebellion
Tensions between the NYPD and homosexual residents of Greenwich Village, the neighborhood where the bar was located, erupted into more protests on the following nights.
So, after weeks of conflict, the residents of the neighbourhood quickly organized groups of activists. The idea was to focus on places where gays and lesbians could go without fear of police repression.
Thus, after the Stonewall riots, various gay rights organizations sprang up around the United States and the rest of the world.
And so, the following year, on June 28, 1970, the first gay pride marches took place. In commemoration of the anniversary of the riots, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago paraded the world’s first parades.
Today, LGBTQIAPN+ parades take place all over the world every year. In Brazil, for example, São Paulo’s LGBTQIAPN+ pride parade has been taking place on Paulista Avenue since 1997.
What’s more, a curiosity that not everyone knows is that since 2006, our parade has been voted the largest in the world by Guinness World Records.