What is the Pride Month 2022 calendar?
PRIDE month is celebrated every year worldwide in June and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community.
This year, there are countless events to attend, with most cities returning to in-person events for the first time since the pandemic began.
What is Pride Month 2022?
Pride Month 2022 is a series of pride parades, protests, and celebrations that are held in many cities around the world starting in June and often extending through August.
The marches, celebrations, parades, and activities symbolize the recognition and acceptance of same-sex marriages and legal protections for gay couples and families.
According to the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association, pride month was born in June 1969.
"A group of LGBTQ+ people in New York City rioted following a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar located on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village," their website reads.
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"The following year in June, organized demonstrations took place in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots."
"As the years went on, additional cities in North America and Europe began to hold their own public demonstrations or pride day, eventually leading to what we know today as a gay pride parade, march, celebration or festival."
What is the Pride Month 2022 calendar?
The is a collaborative list of these events produced annually by the
Some destinations attract millions of visitors each year such as the Madrid Gay Pride and San Francisco Gay Pride while over 70 other countries have laws that prosecute the LGBTQ+ community and are deemed unsafe for Pride Month events.
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What are the US cities participating in Pride this year?
Some of the US cities hosting pride events, marches, celebrations, and more include:
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Denver, Colorado
- Lexington, Kentucky
- Nashville, Tenessee
- Santa Ana, California
- San Francisco, California
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Seattle, Washington
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Cape Coral, Florida
- Miami, Florida
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Orlando, Florida
- Philadephia, Pennsylvania
- Springfield, Illinois
- Washington D.C.
- Columbus, Ohio
- Key West, Florida
- Santa Rosa, California
- Provincetown, Massachusetts
- Ferndale, Michigan
- Venice Beach, California
- Middletown, Connecticut
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Brooklyn, New York
- Los Angeles, California
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Detroit, Michigan
- Albany, New York
- Bisbee, Arizona
- Chicago, Illinois
- Portland, Oregon
- Long Beach, California
- San Diego, California
- Newark, New Jersey
- Detroit, Michigan
- West Seattle, Washington
- Allentown, Pennsylvania
- San Jose, California
- Kona, Hawaii
- Harrisonburg, Virginia
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Spencer, Indiana
Additional cities may be added to the calendar, so check it out for your city.
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