To celebrate June as Pride Month, we delve into the history of the LGBTQ+ community and the advances they have made in spite of oppression throughout large portions of history. We do our best to answer why Pride Month is so important by going through history from the very first queer figures all they way to modern issues faced by the community.

 
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.glaad.org/publications/pridekit 

https://www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/sexuality#lgbtq-general-works 

https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/queer-coins?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OSayCanYouSee+%28O+Say+Can+You+See%3F-+National+Museum+of+American+History+Blog%29 

https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/history 

https://www.lgbtqhistory.org/lgbt-rights-timeline-in-american-history/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/black-history-month-17-lgbtq-black-pioneers-who-made-history-n1130856 

https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-social-issues/homophobia

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/