Some of the more popular ones include the Madrid Gay Pride, Sao Paulo Gay Pride and San Francisco Gay Pride. Parades, carnivals and other events are organised in more than 70 countries. LGBTQ community celebrate June as a “Pride Month’ all over the world. They gathered in large numbers with placards, banners and rainbow flags at the Rajarathinam Stadium in Egmore. (BCCL)Ĭhennai’s LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) community joined their counterparts from across the world as they organised a pride march in the city. Ten years later, Barack Obama gave June month a more inclusive title, “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month". Former US President Bill Clinton officially declared June as “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month” in 1999. After that, every year more and more cities across the globe hosed carnivals and street parades to celebrate LGBT culture. A year later, Brenda Howard and other activists with LGBT community members gathered in New York to celebrate “Christopher Street Liberation Day”. The month June was chosen to remember the Stonewall Riots that broke out in Greenwich Village, New York, on Jafter the police raided one of the city’s most popular gay clubs.
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Chennai’s LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) community joined their counterparts from across the world as they organised a pride march in the city.