Pleasure Month photographs present celebrations in communities around the globe

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

The roots of Pleasure 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 grew to become often called the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Rebellion — an indication that is now thought of the beginning of the LGBTQ rights motion. Marches befell in Manhattan, Chicago and San Francisco to mark the anniversary of Stonewall the next June, and, over time, it grew to become an annual occasion in increasingly more cities. Pleasure Month first gained federal recognition in 1999 from then-President Invoice Clinton.

Pleasure marches and festivals have been happening all through the month in several elements of the U.S. and around the globe, and New York’s 2025 Pleasure march, honoring the legacy of Stonewall, is going on on Sunday.

Here’s a have a look at a few of the occasions from Washington, D.C., to Kathmandu and past.