SOM Pride Week

Pride Week is a dedicated week recognized across the university as a way for our community to celebrate together prior to Pride month. In many countries, June is officially recognized as Pride month, even though some cities may hold their pride events on alternate dates. 

Pride Month is largely credited as starting with the Stonewall Riots, led by trans activists of color Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera, lesbian activist Stormé DeLarverie, and bisexual activist Brenda Howard. Early in the morning on June 28, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar that had become a staple of New York City's underground gay community. But this time, tired of the ongoing raids, community members fought back, striking what would become known as The Stonewall Riots. A year after Stonewall, the first Gay Pride March was held by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee to commemorate the riots. 

Join Out of Office, the Office of Inclusion and Diversity & the Yale SOM community to celebrate! Have suggestions you want to share? Feel free to send recommendations here: https://cglink.me/2eF/s90917