Southern Pride: Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month: Celebrate
Southern Pride

This month, we celebrate Pride Month by honoring the rich, but often under-documented LGBTQ+ history in Georgia and the Southeast United States.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and Queer Pride Month (LGBTQ+ Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village. The Stonewall uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. 

The month is celebrated with annual month-long observances of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, along with the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. 

• "6 ways to be a better straight ally at Pride events" (Mashable)
• "How to be a Good Ally at Pride" (GLAAD)
• "How to be an Ally at Pride (and beyond)" (GQ)
• "How to be an LGBT Ally" (Human Rights Watch)

35% of the ​LGBTQ+ population in the United States lives in the South, including 260,000 ​adults in Georgia.

LGBTQ+ people in Georgia are racially and ethnically diverse- 37% are African-American and 10% are Latinx. 

​Approximately 500,000 transgender people live in the South

​Georgia is only one of five states that does not have a law that addresses hate or bias crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity

​Georgia does not prohibit employment discrimination, housing discrimination​, or discrimination in public accommodations, based on sexual orientation and gender identity

Sources: Williams Institute UCLA, HRW, Equality Center

• LGBTQ+ Resources 

  LGBTQIA2+ Archives, Books, Journals and other resources.

• Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies 

  Supporting researchers of Gender & Women's Studies on the Armstrong & Statesboro Campuses. Also includes links to related guides..