Happy Pride Month from the Adirondack North Country Gender Alliance! Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the […]
HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (HLTSAD) is celebrated annually on June 5th. On June 5, 1981, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of what would later be known as AIDS. In the 1990s with the development of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), […]
Pulse Remembrance Day is an annual commemoration day held on June 12 every year. On this day in 2016, a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killed 49 people and injured 53 others. On this particular day, Pulse was presenting “Latin Night,” a weekly Saturday night event predominantly attended by Latinos. […]
On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. At the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered as all enslaved […]
The Stonewall Riots Anniversary is an annual event that celebrates the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, New York City. It is commemorated on June 28 each year. The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT community that took place from June 28th to July 3rd […]