USA Today
President Obama has issued a proclamation honoring “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride Month 2009.”

Gay pride month is observed every June to commemorate the “Stonewall riots,” an uprising that took place in 1969 when police tried to arrest gay patrons at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The bar is shown here on the 25th anniversary of those events — widely viewed as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement.

Brad Luna of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights organization, says Obama’s proclamation is not a first: President Bill Clinton regularly recognized gay pride month during his second term in office. Luna says Obama is right in claiming that he has tapped more openly gay nominees for high profile posts early in his administration than any previous president. Click here to read this entire article.

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