Library Guides: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: Home

The beginning of Pride Month

Held in June, Pride Month celebrates and commemorates LGBTQIA+ Pride.

June was recognized as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in 1999 by US President Bill Clinton to mark the anniversary of Stonewall.
In June 28th, 1969, there was an uprising after a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar located in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The following year the first Pride March was held to continue the protest for the gay liberation.

Today, many marches are organized all around the world to celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride.

The first Pride march

Gay and Proud, a documentary by activist Lilli Vincenz

Footage of one of the earliest Gay Pride demonstration marches, the first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, held in New York City, New York, on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

Credits: Photography and editing, Clifton R. Witt, Lilli M. Vincenz.

Queer Alliance

Queer Alliance - JCU Student Club
The Queer Alliance is a JCU student club founded by members of the student body who identify as either LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) or straight. Its goal is to foster a supportive academic, professional, and personal, environment for both degree-seeking and study-abroad students while attending JCU and living in Rome.

Stonewall Uprising

Stonewall: the Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 C37 2010
Publication Date: 2010
David Carter's Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff of legend, with relatively little hard information available on the riots themselves. Now, based on hundreds of interviews, an exhaustive search of public and previously sealed files, and over a decade of intensive research into the history and the topic, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution brings this singular event to vivid life in this, the definitive story of one of history's most singular events.
The Stonewall Riots: a Documentary History by Marc Stein
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2019
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history--depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing period in this country's fight for sexual and gender liberation: a riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and surrounding community, followed by six days of protests. Across 200 documents, Marc Stein presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall. Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions, political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal moment in the LGBT movement.