Brunch Is A Drag In Malvern Sunday

MALVERN, PA — Brick and Brew in downtown Malvern is hosting a Drag Pride celebration on Sunday, June 11.

The festivities are from 11 to 4 p.m. at Brick and Brew, 400 East King St. A show is scheduled at 12:30. Drag Queens will entertain as brunch is served. More information and tickets are available here.

• Pride in Nature: Malvern Public Library: 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, June 9 a story will be read about two penguins who adopt a chick who is very different, but full of love. It’s for elementary school-age children, but all ages can attend. Registration is available here.
• Pride Outside the Birdhouse: Malvern Public Library 10:30 to 12:30 Saturday, June 10. Ages 13+ Excerpts from “Queer Ducks and Other Animals” Will Be Read

Here are some other Pride months events nearby

• The 6th Annual Chester County Pride Festival, hosted by the LGBT Equality Alliance of Chester County, is from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 10 on Bridge Street in downtown Phoenixville, PA. The event is a free event, and all ages are welcome.

Every Friday in June is a gathering from 4 to 5 p.m. LBGT Equality Alliance, 14 Gay St., Phoenixville.

• Pride Party: A pride after party is planned from 8 p.m. Saturday, June 10, to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, June 11 at the LGBT Equality Alliance, 14 Gay St. Phoenixville.
• Pride Talk: A conversation with Walter Naegle is planned from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 23 at the Chester County History Center, 25 N High St, West Chester. Naegle is an artist and photographer who is the surviving partner of late American Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin, Naegle serves as board member emeritus at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, an LGBTQIA center in Princeton, N.J.
• “Reminder Day Tea Dance: The Chester County History Center, 225 N High St., is hosting a an event from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 24, to commemorate Reminder Day, one of the earliest organized gay rights demonstrations in the United States, held in Philadelphia in 1965-and subsequently until 1969. Reminder Day sought to bring awareness and remind the public that basic rights of citizenship were being denied to homosexual individuals. The tea dances were events organized on Sunday afternoons in the 1950s and 1960s in New York.

History of Gay Pride Month

Pride Month occurs during June in deference to the Stonewall Uprising, a tipping point in the struggle for equality among people who identify as LGBTQ.

New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. Such raids were common, but patrons fought back, resulting in days of violent clashes across Greenwich Village.

The observance started as Gay Pride Day on the last Sunday in June, but soon grew to the point that June calendars are packed with pride parades, parties, workshops, symposiums, and concerts across the nation and around the world.

In Pennsylvania, about 4.1 percent, or 490,000 people — identify as LGBTQ, according to the Movement Advance Project, which tracks legislation targets. They represent 5 percent of Pennsylvania’s workforce or 307,000 people.

Pennsylvania Proposed Laws

Pride Month 2023 occurs amid a historic surge in bills targeting LGBTQ rights, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Nearly 500 pieces of legislation nationwide have been filed in state legislatures this year, according to the ACLU tracking.

In Pennsylvania, lawmakers advanced three bills this year:

• House Bill 138: A bill was referred to the House judiciary committee on March 8 to allow an individual arising from gender affirmation treatment as a minor to file a civil claim before age 30.
• House Bill 216: A Bill was referred to the education committee on March 8 to protect women’s sports. The bill is to ensure women are not forced to compete against biological males on women’s sports teams.
• House Bill 315: Bill was referred to the education committee on March 13. The bill would prevent classroom instruction on sexual identification through fifth grade, require classroom instruction to be age-appropriate, and require school officials to notify parents if there is a change in services regarding a child