WOW2 - Early June's Women Trailblazers and Events in Our History - 2019 - PART ONE

Apologies — I nearly lost a lot of this post when the ‘Save Draft’ function stopped working, but was able to transfer all but the first part into a new diary before the ‘Save’ also died there. So I have to post this in Two Parts so you can see the whole thing.  

Welcome to WOW2 — Early June! PART ONE

WOW2 is a twice-monthly sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers women and events just from June 1. Part TWO covers June 2 through June 15.

The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books, and to mark moments in women’s history. It also serves as a reference archive of women’s history. There are so many more phenomenal women than I ever dreamed of finding, and all too often their stories are almost unknown, even to feminists and scholars.

This is an on-going, evolving project. So many women have been added to the lists over the past three years that even changing the posts from monthly to twice a month, the pages keep getting longer and more unwieldy – an astonishing and wonderful problem to have!

June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in the U.S.

In 2000, President Bill Clinton proclaimed the first “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month,” to commemorate the uprising on June 28, 1969, at NYC’s Stonewall Inn that became the catalyst for the modern LGTBQ civil rights movement in America. In 2016, President Obama designated the Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park in Greenwich Village as the Stonewall National Monument.