Pride Month, June, started this year. While everyone across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum is celebrating, some people are still wondering what Pride Month actually is, where it came from, and what all the rainbows are supposed to mean. Does that have to be? No, Pride Month would not have to be - if gay, lesbian, bisexual and other people belonging to the LGBTQIA+ spectrum did not continue to experience disadvantage, hatred and discrimination for 54 years. As a result, Pride Month is still a protest movement for equality and tolerance. It is not that bad? The Human Dignity Trust website has created an interactive map , where in the world what restrictions and penalties exist. In Germany alone, sexual identity is not part of the protection against discrimination in the Equal Treatment Catalog of the Basic Law, which was passed after the Second World War. Homosexual people continue to experience disadvantages in areas such as job search, health insurance, adoption and survivors pensions and taxes and are therefore not treated on an equal footing with heteronormative people. Especially in the area of blood donation, homosexual people are excluded for an assumed higher disease transmission due to their assumed sexual behavior. For these changes one is colorful. People are taking to the streets for these changes. Is it not possible quietly? It already did. It was quiet. Until the early hours of June 28, 1969. That morning there was a now routine raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York. This bar is located on Christopher Street in New York. While this was not the first resistance movement to emerge from the LGBTQIA+ movement, this protest sparked a global movement. Why were raids carried out if no crime was committed? The rules the police officers invoked were those of serving alcohol in "disorderly" operations. The presence of gay guests was considered disorderly. The exact history of the turning point through the Stonewall Inn Falls is again explicitly shown in an overview of the Stonewall 50 consortium. And that is why you celebrate Pride? The Stonewall Incident was the trigger, but the Pride movement only formed a few years later through the gay rights organization founded in Los Angeles, which called itself Pride. Pride is an acronym for "Personal Rights in Defense and Education". Pride is also read at the same time as the word it is: pride. Contrary to what some have assumed, the Pride movement is not about exaggeration or being better, but about being normal. "Be proud of who you are because there is nothing wrong with that." Pride Month is specifically about commemorating the Stonewall Inn incident, as well as, with the CSD, Christopher Street Day, about protest and admonition. On the fact that human rights and basic rights should apply to everyone - and of course on the fact that things like the Stonewall Inn incident do not happen again. After a few changes, the rainbow flag became the symbol of the movement, after Harvey Milk (see Amazon film), the first openly gay politician to be elected to public office, proposed a symbol for the movement.
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