Pride Month 2022 slideshow from the LGBTQx employee resource group.

1. PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840 – 1893)
Russian
composer of
symphonies,
operas, ballets
and choral music.
PRIDE MONTH

2. MICHELANGELO
(1475 – 1564)
Italian sculptor,
painter, architect and
poet.
PRIDE MONTH

3. BAYARD
RUSTIN
Close advisor to Martin
Luther King. Was an
openly gay activist.
Key organizer of the
1963 March on
Washington where MLK
gave his famous “I have
a dream” speech.
PRIDE MONTH

4. KARL HEINRICH-
ULRICHS
Civil servant in Germany
forced to resign in 1854
due to his
homosexuality. First gay
person to publicly speak
out for homosexual
rights.
PRIDE MONTH

5. WALT WHITMAN
American Poet.
who wrote Leaves
of Grass
“I exist as I am,
that is enough.”
PRIDE MONTH

6. EMILY
DICKINSON
(1830 – 1886)
Legendary American Poet
PRIDE MONTH

7. PRIDE MONTH
AUDRE LORD
Great American poet who
fought vigorously for civil
rights for women,
lesbians and people of
color. Described herself
as a ‘black lesbian
mother warrior poet’.

8. PRIDE MONTH
SYLVIA RIVERA
This transgender
activist fought tirelessly
for underprivileged
communities and was a
founding member of the
Gay Liberation Front.

9. PRIDE MONTH
DEL MARTIN &
PHYLLIS LYON
Founders of one of
America’s early lesbian
publications and the
first same-sex couple to
be married in California.

10. PRIDE MONTH
1990
The World Health
Organization declares
homosexuality is not
an illness. The
American Medical
Association comes to
the same conclusion
four years later.

11. PRIDE MONTH
STONEWALL INN
1969 – Scene of
spontaneous
demonstrations by LGBTQ
community against police
raids turned violent. Often
seen as seminal moment
in the struggle for equal
rights for LGBTQ people.

12. PRIDE MONTH
TENNESSEE
WILLIAMS
Closeted gay man
(required by society), he
was a vital force in the
NY queer art scene.
Creator of “Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof” and “Streetcar
Named Desire”

13. PRIDE MONTH
PULSE
NIGHTCLUB
Scene of June 2016
terrorist attack of a
gay nightclub in
Orlando, FL that
killed 49 people and
left 53 wounded.

14. PRIDE MONTH
CHRISTINE
JORGENSEN
1952 – Ex-GI was one of
the first to come out after
gender affirming surgery.

15. PRIDE MONTH
THE AIDS EPIDEMIC
More than 23,000
people died before
the government
addressed the
epidemic in part due
to being considered
a “gay plague”.

16. PRIDE MONTH
HARVEY MILK
San Francisco
supervisor demolished
barriers for queer folk
with his relentless pursuit
of justice, openness and
pride. Assassinated by
rival in 1978.

17. PRIDE MONTH
ELLEN
DEGENERES
The first openly lesbian
actress to play an openly
lesbian character on
television.

18. PRIDE MONTH
HEINZ DORMER
Heinz Dormer spent 20
years incarcerated, first
by Nazi Germany in a
concentration camp
then by the new
German Republic – all
simply for being gay.

19. PRIDE MONTH
OREGON MEASURE 36
The last Oregon anti-
gay initiative to date
was passed in 2004 by
a 13% margin. It
remained in place until
overturned in federal
court in 2014.

20. PRIDE MONTH
MARSHA P
JOHNSON
A self-identified drag
queen, she was an
outspoken advocate
for gay rights and was
a prominent figure in
the Stonewall uprising
in 1969.

21. PRIDE MONTH
PETE BUTTIGIEG
First openly gay
candidate for
President of the
United States.
Running as a
Democrat for the
2020 election.

22. PRIDE MONTH
SAM ADAMS
First openly gay
mayor of a major US
city and first openly
gay City Council
Member - Portland,
Oregon

23. PRIDE MONTH
LAWS AROUND THE WORLD

24. PRIDE MONTH
SAME SEX MARRIAGE
LEGALIZED
June 26, 2015 - U.S.
Supreme Court struck
down all state bans on
same-sex marriage,
legalized it in all fifty states,
and required states to
honor out-of-state same-
sex marriage.

25. PRIDE MONTH
LEGAL DISCRIMINATION
Federal law does not
prohibit discrimination
based on sexual
orientation. The
Equality Act, currently
being considered by
Congress, seeks to
change that.

26. PRIDE MONTH
TRANSGENDER MURDERS
There have been 128
killings of trans people in
87 cities across 32 states
since 2013, of whom
80% were people of
color.
2017 and 2018 set new
records.
Antash’a English, 38 -
Jacksonville, FL

27. PRIDE MONTH
EDIE WINDSOR
Took on the government
after being forced to pay
taxes for inheriting her
wife's estate as part of the
Defense of Marriage Act.
Her victory in that case was
instrumental in the fight for
marriage equality.

28. PRIDE MONTH
GILBERT BAKER
Helped define the LGBTQ
movement as the designer of
the rainbow flag. The flag was
first unveiled at the San
Francisco Pride Parade in
1978 and has become a
universal symbol for the
LGBTQ+ community.

29. PRIDE MONTH
STEVE ENDEAN
Founded the Human Rights
Campaign Fund in 1980,
With over three million
members, the HRC has
become the largest
organization advocating for
LGBTQ civil rights.