The civil partnership bill approved by the cabinet in 2020 would recognise same-sex unions with almost the same legal rights as married couples. In Thailand, two bills on LGBTQ+ couples, including one on civil partnerships, are waiting to go to parliament. I get to tell people we (LGBTQ+) are not despicable in society," Gun said. "I'm so happy that I get to express my identity. The relatively big parade was supported by the local government for the first time.ĭrag Queen Gun Punna, 56, who was dressed in rainbow clothes from head to toe, was calling for the acceptance of sexual diversity. Some chanted and called for same-sex marriages to be legalised and for sex workers' rights.ĭesigner Cpeeranat, 24, who made his costume with a long rainbow flag, said the parade had given him goosebumps. Photo courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society.BANGKOK - Thousands of members of Thailand's LGBTQ+ community raised rainbow flags in the country's first official pride parade on Sunday evening (June 5) to celebrate pride month and support gender equality.Īlso waving blue, pink, and white transgender flags, marchers made their way through the main streets of Bangkok. ~ Source: Indiana Historical Society ~ Creator: Damien Center ~ Date: 1988 Reverend & Protesters, 1992 : The Reverend Howard Warren, openly gay director of pastoral care at the Damien Center, addresses anti-gay protesters at a Pride event in 1992. Photo courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society. The Gala Masquerade is an annual event, first held in 1987, to raise money and awareness for the Damien Center and HIV/AIDS prevention. The campaign for 2022 will commemorate the past 50 years and our evolution as a movement acknowledging those torch. This year is a significant year for the Pride movement and the LGBT+ community as we commemorate 50 Years since the first Pride took place in the United Kingdom. ~ Date: 1982 Damien Center Ad, 1988: Poster for a Damien Center fundraiser in 1988. The Pride in London parade will be held on Saturday 2nd July 2022. Photo courtesy of the Indianapolis Historical Society.
They later became a key fundraising partner of the Damien Center. Bass Photo Company ~ Date: 1957 Bag Ladies, 1982.: The Bag Ladies Bus Tour, pictured here on Halloween night, 1982, raised money for sufferers of HIV/AIDS in Indianapolis. Bass Photo Company Collection, Indiana Historical Society ~ Creator: W.H. Bass Photo Company and Indianapolis Historical Society. One of the first organized GLBT events in Indianapolis took place here in 1981. ~ Date: 2013 Essex Hotel, 1957: The Essex Hotel at the corner of Pennsylvania and Vermont, pictured in 1957.
Media Images Indy Pride 2013: The 2013 Cadillac Barbie Pride Parade on June 9, 2013. Today, we see the struggle continue in our community, in communities of color and in communities of faith, all overlapping much more than we may realize." Read more of Indy Pride's statement. Now, more than ever, we must remember that Pride started as protest against police brutality, injustice and marginalization. As Pride Month began on June 1st, Indy Pride posted this statement in support of Black Lives Matter: "June 1st is the beginning of Pride Month where we celebrate the progress, diversity and individuality of the LGBTQ+ community. LGBT in Indy Today All 2020 Indy Pride events were postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Cadillac Barbie parade joined the Pride festivities in 2002. In 1990, Pride moved to Monument Circle and attracted over 3,000 visitors. Attendance that year was only around 175 people, but it would soon grow enormously. Circle City Pride Festival & Parade (1988-) In 1988, the first official Pride Festival kicked off at the Indianapolis Sports Center. Perhaps the earliest LGBT publication in the city, The Screamer, dating back to the mid-1960s, features poetry, funny anecdotes, and recipes. Many cities in California and across the nation organized their own parades.
At this meeting and others like it, LGBT activists planned for the future of their community and circulated copies of The Mirror and The New Works News, Indianapolis’s early gay and lesbian papers. Pride parades, in which participants took to the streets as a politicized LGBT community, were visual representations of this new political consciousness. A dinner at the Essex in 1981 is considered to be the first organized Pride event in the city. Underground in Indy (1960-1981) Until the mid-1980s, the Indianapolis LGBT community was “underground.” Fearing social persecution, gay men and women met covertly at the old Essex House Hotel, which sat here on this corner until it was demolished in 1994. The parade is a celebration of the Indianapolis LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community’s decades-long struggle for recognition and acceptance. You’re standing at the corner of Vermont Street and Pennsylvania Street, where the Circle City Pride Parade has marched by every summer since 2002.