This eventually morphed into what we now know as the New York City Pride March and was the catalyst for the formation of similar parades and marches across the world. Known as ‘The Mother of Pride,’ Brenda organized Gay Pride Week and the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade a year after the Stonewall Riots. Pride Month is largely credited as being started by bisexual activist Brenda Howard. The message was clear - protestors demanded the establishment of places where LGBT+ people could go and be open about their sexual orientation without fear of arrest.
Johnson, leading the movement to continue over six days with protests and clashes. Among the many leaders of the riots was a black, trans, bisexual woman, Marsha P. "should NOT be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism.On a hot summer’s night in New York on June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village, which resulted in bar patrons, staff, and neighborhood residents rioting onto Christopher Street outside. When first announcing her co-sponsoring of the bill in February, Greene only mentioned an opposition to embassies displaying Black Lives Matter flags, saying the U.S. Aside from Greene, the bill's 17 GOP co-sponsors include other controversial representatives, such as Matt Gaetz of Florida, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Paul Gosar of Arizona. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, who had previously introduced it in 20. The Old Glory Only Act was introduced to the House in January by Rep. "The American flag represents all Americans and that is the only flag that should ever be flown, period."
The LGBTQ flag, that's not a flag that needs to be flown over our government buildings either." Greene went on: "And first of all, Black Lives Matter is a domestic terrorist organization, so that is no flag that should ever fly over any of our government buildings. flag, according to a State Department cable reported by multiple news outlets. This year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken granted a blanket authorization for embassies to fly the Pride flag on the same flagpole as the U.S. embassies defiantly flouted the policy during Pride month. The Trump administration reportedly rejected most requests to fly the flag, while several U.S.