Happy Pride! - Poster of the Week
- politicalgraphics
- Jun 5
- 2 min read
Gay Rights are Human Rights
John Jernegan
Silkscreen, late 1970s
San Francisco, CA
74938
June is Pride Month. In late June 1969, the New York City queer** community, led by transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, resisted police brutality and the criminalization of queer people in the Stonewall Uprising. Since then, queer people have celebrated Pride throughout the month of June. It is a time of celebrating our queer selves, our queer loved ones, and our queer communities. It is also a time for remembering, for building solidarity, and for radically resisting the many layers of oppression queer people continue to experience.
Queer Rights are Human Rights!!!
**Queer was used as a slur against the LGBTQ+ community for much of the 20th century. The Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970s began reclaiming the word, and as vocabulary within the LGBTQ+ community became more specific over the decades, Queer has emerged as an umbrella term that is both inclusive of all forms of gender expression and sexuality and conveys political intentionality.
Celebrate Queer Lives:
Remember Queer History:
Build Solidarity & Radically Resist:
Support queer people experiencing homelessness by connecting them to housing resources and working with housing advocates to end the housing crisis!
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