Your weekend must reads: Pride Month🏳️🌈
June is Pride Month. What does that mean in 2024?
🏳️🌈Good morning, Short List family. I'm John Riley, and today's edition of The Short List is dedicated to Pride Month, celebrating the LGBTQ community and the fight for equal rights.🏳️🌈 Pride Month began as a commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York. Today, in addition to honoring LGBTQ love and joy, it’s a time to highlight important issues the community faces.
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Mayor's refusal highlights lingering pain of exclusion
A Montana mayor's refusal to honor June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month reflects the aggression faced by many queer people in small cities and rural towns. For some, the omission sent a clear message.
How Maren Morris and other stars are showing their allyship
Now that Pride Month is here, stars are showing their love for the LGBTQ community, including country singer Maren Morris. See how they're celebrating.
Real quick look at Pride Month
- Pride Month basics: What does it stand for? When was it created?
- 'Let's keep going': Kamala Harris chats with 'Queer Eye' on LGBTQ+ progress
- 'I was gay all my life': Decorated veteran comes out in his own heartbreaking obituary
- 'Coming out saved my life': LGBTQ+ ex-Christians deserve to be proud of ourselves
- Talking about anal sex: Doctor's new book seeks to remove the stigma
- Straight Pride?: Why we don't have a month dedicated to heterosexuality
- Pride flags guide: All the flags and their meanings
Scroll down: There are more great stories below.👇 See you next week!