The center for black equity and other groups organize events specifically for LGBTQ people of color. Pride also is an opportunity to educate about diversity within the greater LGBTQ community. Since then, Pride has grown to become a month-long celebration featuring parades, concerts, and parties. She also came up with the idea for a week-long series of events around Pride Day, which later became the beginning of the annual LGBT Pride celebrations held around the world every June.Īccording to the Library of Congress, the US celebrated Gay Pride Day on the last Sunday in June. Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist, is known as the “Mother of Pride” for her role in organising the first Pride march in New York City. The demonstrations outside the stonewall inn marked a turning point for rights for the LGBTQ community.

The first celebrations commemorated the anniversary of the stonewall uprising in New York City in 1969. Gay pride or LGBT pride started in June 1970. Let’s first learn about the history of Pride Month.