Trans Pride Southampton wishes everyone a very happy and productive LGBT History Month for all of our LGBTQIA+ followers, volunteers and affiliates. We value all of you, we celebrate the rights that have been hard won for queer people across the world and we support the rights of those in the community which are under threat or yet to be won.
Image description: a square post saying “Happy LGBT History Month”, these words are surrounded by images of:
Sylvia Rivera, an American trans sex worker activist with the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) banner, an organisation she co founded with another Stonewall Veteran Marsha P Johnson
A logo of Solent Pride, a several day long pride event across the Solent, which ran from 1992 - 1994
James Baldwin, an American writer and civil rights activist
The Lesbian And Gays Support The Miners banner, from the 1980s in the UK which stood alliance with the National Union of Mineworkers during a year long strike.
Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California
Christine Jorgensen, the first person to become famous after receiving sexual reassignment surgery in the United States, she was named Woman Of The Year in 1953
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