Satisfaction Month images present celebrations in communities world wide

Wrapped in multicolored flags and waving protest indicators, revelers throughout the globe have gathered all through June for Satisfaction occasions — a monthlong celebration of the LGBTQ group that additionally symbolizes an ongoing combat for equal rights and inclusion.

The roots of Satisfaction Month stretch again to June 28, 1969, when a police raid on New York Metropolis’s Stonewall Inn, a homosexual bar, led to a number of nights of clashes with the bar’s LGBTQ patrons and others, which turned referred to as the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Rebellion — an illustration that is now thought of the beginning of the LGBTQ rights motion. Marches came about in Manhattan, Chicago and San Francisco to mark the anniversary of Stonewall the next June, and, over time, it turned an annual occasion in an increasing number of cities. Satisfaction Month first gained federal recognition in 1999 from then-President Invoice Clinton.

Satisfaction marches and festivals have been happening all through the month in several components of the U.S. and world wide, and New York’s 2025 Satisfaction march, honoring the legacy of Stonewall, is scheduled for Sunday. Here’s a take a look at a few of the occasions from Washington, D.C., to Kathmandu and past.