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The month of June is celebrated as Pride Month. Later in 2016, President Barack Obama designated the site of a watershed event in the history of US gay rights, the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, as a national monument, the first one to honor the contributions of gay Americans. History of Pride month and how it started: The …
Pride Month in many parts of the world is celebrated through the month of June. In 1970, the first gay pride march was organised to mark one year of the Stonewall Uprising — various other cities in the US followed and organised marches at the same time. In the following years, this snowballed into marches in various other cities, with …