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, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month (LGBTQ 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
Normally I get people to sign up to tell me how they will celebrate this month, however this year I did not do that, we will be right back at it next year. I did, however steal two pictures from two people I know who is loud and proud. Christy Sparrowhawk aka Big Sister Sweet N Sassy who is my sorority sister and very close friend and Sugar McIntosh Stubbs who is a friend and also has been a loyal patient of mine.
They posted these pictures on facebook and I thought they were awesome. Check it out π
Christy Sparrowhawk aka Big Sister Sweet N Sassy
Cassie D. Shaw M.D.
As for me, I believe The LGBTQ 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 LGBTQ 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 LGBTQ Pride month for the living as well as the lives that were lost.
This is me π
Signing out
Cassie D. Shaw MD
AKA Big Sister On Point
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