Pride Month Challenge ..Remember Stonewall this weekend (daily posts below this one)

June 25,1978 Gilbert Baker brought to light the Rainbow Flag
THANK YOU!


Lights! Camera! PRIDE!

This weekend, nearly 40 years ago, a movement started that still exists today.  The Stonewall Riots are considered the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement in the United States.  To this day we continue the fight.  Though many walls have been torn down, there are still many more to overcome.  To all my friends and 'family' celebrating this weekend at Pride Events (from San Francisco to Toronto to New Orleans)... enjoy the company of those like us and those who support us.

Stonewall Inn in 1969


This is me outside The Stonewall Inn back in April of this year.  Statues to remember what happened here.


And thanks to those brave individuals in 1969, Jeff and I were able to enjoy a few drinks in The Stonewall Inn, in April....

If for not any other reason... take the challenge... these two women have been challenged for over 55 years...

After 55 years... how can you deny it!!!
Congrats to Del Martin and Phyllis Lyons.

It is that time of year again... I post a picture here and ask you to spread the word.  Take this picture, post it on your blog or website.  Once you do, let me know (or let me know if you see the picture somewhere and I will post the link in this post, which will remain at the top of my blog for the month of June)... I did take the picture above a couple of months ago, as I did for the one in the header.  Both are of our rainbow flag that hangs proudly on the front of our house in our Gayborhood. The original challenge photo from three years ago is in my left sidebar.

This year I am asking for a bit more though.  Once you post the picture and let me know that you have, tell a story... your coming out story... or why you have not come out... or just why you posted the picture and why you felt it was important to spread the rainbow... I have posted my coming out story before, kinda... so here it is again...CLICK HERE for The Coming Out of Kelly.

Those who have posted (check them out):
1. My New Life 2.Just A Dude Talking About Life 3. Psychic and Emotional Starvation 4. According to Kim 5. There Goes My Pen 6. Robguy 7. Can't Never Could Do Nothing 8. Ouch! 9. High Desert Living 10. Ed and Tony  11. Gay Political Issues 12. Maddog 13. Spo-Reflections 14. Steppin Out Gay 15. Idle Eyes and a Dormy  16. Fair View 17. earth2karen 18. Long Story Longer 19. Spirit of Saint Lewis  20. TO@TFTBG  21. earth2karen  22.  DanNation  23. some good thing 24. No Girls Toy 25. Dear Diary, I'm gay 26. Let's Say You're Right 27. Just A Dude Talking About Life 28. Burning or Building Bridges in the community 29. Blogography 30. LargeTony 31. Everybody Lives, Today Everybody Lives  32. Can I Get a Degree with that Soy Latte  33. Being Normal 34. Kaply, Inc  35. Dr. Benton Quest 36. kickin tina 37. Manhattan Chowder  38. TIPPIN' THE SCALES 39. The Jimmi Chronicles  40. Boy Grows Up  41. Die Fledermaus  42. Anon Blond  43. my life, or something like it  44. Closer To Fine 45. Tales of the Sissy  46. Lexx's Nexxus 47. Wiggity whack? 48. The Musings of a Confused Man  49. Tara Dharma 50. I, Deege  51. VJnet Cast  52. Balancing Boyfriends 53.  BrettCajun  54. Chad Fox  55. Life and Times of a Gay Man in Idaho  56. Caramelized OpNIONS 57. guttermorality

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Posted by Kelly Stern at 6/29/2008 8:43 AM and is filed under uncategorized
 

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