By Vanessa Corcoran
Chicago’s annual Pride Parade celebrates the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and queer community since June 27th, 1970.
Why are gay rights celebrated in June?
June is the LGBQT+ pride month because of the Stonewall riots in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. Members of the gay community came together against a police raid that began June 28, 1969. It’s a critical moment for the gay rights movement.
Former president, Barack Obama, created the first national monument in order to tell the struggling story for LGBQT+ rights on June 24th, 2016. The Stonewall National Monument is anchored by Christopher Park, just across from the Stonewall Inn, where the uprising took place.
Illinois gay marriage bill
Former Gov. Pat Quinn signed Illinois gay marriage bill On November 20th, 2013. This historic moment made Illinois the 16th state to allow same-sex marriage in the United States.
On June 26, 2015 The U.S. Supreme Court made same-sex marriages legal in all 50 states in the Obergefell v. Hodges case.
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