MDC InterAmerican Campus

*June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in America* Pride month is an opportunity to celebrate diversity as well as support civil liberties and rights for all.

Here is a selection of annotated websites to learn more about this celebration.

	National Women’s History Project. Offers a brief history of this celebration. Declaration of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month on June, 2000 by President Clinton can also offer an insight into the history of the celebration (from About.com)

	People with a History: Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world.

	Bibliography of Gay and Lesbian People. This site provides an extensive reading list of GLBT history divided by topic as well as by historical periods and by country.

	The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

	Equality Florida (EQFL) is a statewide education and advocacy organization dedicated to building a state of equal rights for all Floridians, inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender identities


Gayscape.com is a directory/search engine of serious leading source of information for and about the gay community. It contains over 102, 000 indexed sites in the U.S. and internationally.

*Always remember that your InterAmerican Campus Library is the best place to obtain information on the month’s celebrations. Ask a librarian for assistance.*

Here is a list of other important celebrations for the Month of June with a brief annotation.

Children’s Awareness Month
June 1- 30. A month-long celebration of America ’s children in our everyday lives and communities that lovingly remembers all of America ’s children that we have lost thought violence. These could have been our children or grandchildren. We choose to remember the living during this month of June by celebrating the gift of children.

International Men’s Month
June 1-30. This program was initiated in 1996 to increase media and local community awareness of the many unique issues that impact men’s lives and that are of concern to the people who love them. In an effort to promote positive changes in male roles and relationships, a different issue is addressed each day of the month during June. Web: www.menstuff.org

Miami/Bahamas Goombay Festival
June 4-6. Miami , Fl. 28 th annual celebration of the black culture and heritage of Bahamian settlers in Miami ’s Coconut Grove area in the 1800s. Largest black heritage special event in the U.S. Annually the first full weekend in June. Web: www.miamigoombay.com http://www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~14233.jml http://www.blackfloridian.com/bfc2003/galleries/goombay2000/
D-Day: 60 th Anniversary
June 6, 1944. In the early morning hours Allied forces landed in Normandy on the north coast of France. In an operation that took months of planning, a fleet of 2,727 ships of every description converged from British ports from Wales to the North Sea. Operation Overlord involved 2,000,000 tons of war materials, including more than 50,000 tanks, armored cars, jeeps, trucks and half-tacks. The US alone sent 1,700,000 fighting men. The Germans believed the invasion would not take place under the adverse weather conditions of this early June day. But as the sun came up the village of Saint Mere Eglise was liberated an American parachutists, and by nightfall the landing of 155,000 Allies attested to the success of D-Day. The long-awaited second front had at last materialized. Web: www.dday.org http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/ Library of Congress

Flag Day
June 14. Presidential proclamation issued each year for June 14. Proclamation 1335, of May 30, 1916 , covers all succeeding years. Has been issued annually since 1941. Customarily issued as “Flag Day and National Flag Week,” as in 1986; the president usually mentions “a time to honor America ,” Flag Day to Independence Day (89 Stat.211). Web: History of US Flag Library of Congress

For other celebrations during the June, please visit University of California’s Calendar.

*Always remember that your InterAmerican Campus Library is the best place to obtain information on* *the month’s celebrations. Ask a librarian for assistance.*

Most of the information in this page came from the Chase’s Calendar of Events, 2004*, also available in your library.