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This is the month we rock our rainbows with PRIDE. June is LGBTQ Pride Month, which means Americans around the country should expect some colorful marches throughout the month as people make a stand for equality.

If you didn't know, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. 

The Stonewall riots were a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as “Gay Pride Day,” but the actual day was flexible. In major cities across the nation the “day” soon grew to encompass a month-long series of events. 

Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposium and concerts, and LGBT Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. 

The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.

In 1994, a coalition of education-based organizations in the United States designated October as LGBT History Month. In 1995, a resolution passed by the General Assembly of the National Education Association included LGBT History Month within a list of commemorative months.

LGBT History Month is also celebrated with annual month-long observances of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, along with the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. National Coming Out Day (October 11), as well as the first “March on Washington” in 1979, are commemorated in the LGBT community during LGBT History Month, as told by https://www.loc.gov/lgbt/about.html

I tried to get some people to tell me about them and their plans for Pride, I received 2 responses but that's okay, I hope someone get inspired by the lovely people here that gave us a glance...

𝕆𝕣𝕚𝕪𝕒 𝕋𝕚𝕥𝕦𝕓𝕒 𝕌𝕜𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕚

Destiny: What does LGBTQ month mean to you? 

Oriya Tituba Ukweli: It is a time to celebrate the diversity of being LGBTQ and to show the world that we are about more than what they imagine that we do in our bedrooms

Destiny: How do you plan to celebrate it? 

Oriya Tituba Ukweli: In RL, I'll be attending and performing at several of the pride celebration and in SL I'll be attending several of the pride events.

Destiny: What are some things you want people to know about the LGBTQ community as a whole? 

Oriya Tituba Ukweli: I want them to know that we are not things to be placed in categories or stereotypes. We are so much more than some believe or imagine. And that if they don't know by all means ask before assumptions are made. We are no different than those who are not LGBTQ...we work, play, raise children, have families, pay bills, cry. laugh sing and dance, etc and put on our pant/panties one leg at a time like everybody else...we just love differently.

Destiny: Thanks Oriya! 

ℝ𝕀𝔸ℕℕ 𝕄𝕆ℝ𝔾𝔸ℕ

Destiny: What does LGBTQ month mean to you? 

Riann: LGBTQ means that America has finally recognized that we are humans too and not aliens. I take great pride and knowing that I don't have to hide, I can be free and be me without the backlash. Don't get me wrong there will still be people that believe what they believe and that's fine just don't disrespect me and I won't disrespect you. 

Destiny: How do you plan to celebrate it? 

Riann:  I have gone to different events and just partied to be honest. But more importantly reflect on how far this as come. 

Destiny: What are some things you want people to know about the LGBTQ community as a whole? 

Riann:  I want people to know that we ARE people just like everyone else. We bleed the same and we love the same. You can't help who you love. Love is Love at the end of the day and a heterosexual love is no more great than a homosexual, or bisexual love. Think about it.

Destiny: Thanks Riann! 

𝔻𝔼𝕊𝕋𝕀ℕ𝕐 𝕁𝕆𝔽𝔽𝔼ℝ-𝔻𝔸𝕍𝕀𝕊 𝕄𝔻

As for me, I believe The LGBT community often gets frowned upon without people realizing that it's all human beings. Who you fall in love with is who you fall in love with. No one have the right to judge unless they have no skeletons or anything growing in their own backyards. 

People have been saying where have our world come to when LGBT marriage was legalized but, that isn't anything bad. The rights for two human beings to wed because their love is REAL, where is the harm is that? Love has no gender, love have no face, Love is Love, there is no hatred in that.

If you are a lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender or whatever, do not let others dictate your life and how you live it. We get one life to live and you get to live it the way you choose. Having a attraction to someone that hits your soul is never wrong. Love who you love without worrying about who is watching!

Love has no bounds and no limits. People really do need to open up their minds and hearts because this is the world we live in. It is much easier to love someone then to hate them for their nationality, skin color, orientation or anything for that matter that makes them different from you. Continue to celebrate LGBT Pride month for the living as well as the lives that were lost. ALL LIVES MATTER!

Let's stand together! Let's stand in unity! 

Signing out...
Big Sister On Point 
             aka Destiny Joffer-Davis MD