From the National Today website: “Pride Month is largely credited as being started by bisexual activist, Brenda Howard. Known as, ‘The Mother of Pride,’ a year after the Stonewall Riots, Brenda organized Gay Pride Week and the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade. This eventually morphed into what we now know as the New York City Pride March, and from where parades and marches across the world evolved.”

From the FindLaw website:  “Legal recognition of same-sex marriage grew rapidly right after Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex unions in 2003. But recognition of same-sex marriage rights were not universal until the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision protecting same-sex marriage rights in all states. In reaching its decision that the U.S. Constitution guarantees marriage rights to gay couples, the Court cited the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”  This landmark decision was issued on June 26, 2015.

Let’s celebrate with and honor our LGBTQ friends and family!