Actually, this week has a distinctive focus on LGBT+, as we will be attending Pride in Gloucestershire on Saturday 8th<\/sup> September. We\u2019ll be there with students from our LGBT+ Student Society who support the event every year alongside the university. The event is a little later this year. I\u2019m sure that many of you know, June is Pride month. Do you know why, or how it came about though?<\/p>\n The Stonewall Riots of 1969 in the US are seen as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. On the morning of 28th<\/sup> June 1969, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. Police raids were routine, but this was the first time the community resisted and fought back. According to \u201celite daily\u201d, a regional conference of LGBT activists was held that November in Philadelphia. They voted in favour of replacing the Annual Reminder demonstrations with an annual event to mark the riots. The day was called Christopher Street Liberation Day, named after the street that the Stonewall Inn is on, and would be celebrated in New York. The conference hoped though that other cities would organise events to commemorate the riots. In 1970 gay pride marches and events were held in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. They continued to grow every year thereafter. By 1984, Pride celebrations were established in many major US cities as well as around the world.<\/p>\n The first official gay pride rally in the UK was held in London on 1st<\/sup> July 1972. The date was chosen as it was the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of the Stonewall riots of 1969. The first marches though had taken place in November 1970 with 150 men walking through Highbury Fields in North London.<\/p>\n Whilst Pride should be a celebration of progress in the LGBT+ community, I think it is important to remember its origins. As Rachel\u2019s words reminded me, there is still more work to do.<\/p>\n But if you have some time on Saturday, why don\u2019t you come and celebrate Pride with us in Gloucester Park.<\/p>\n If you are unable to attend, you can keep up with the festivities by following us on Twitter @UoGEquality or @prideinglos<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back. We thought we would take a break in August. With holiday commitments, life at work was a little quiet. 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