Satisfaction 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 Satisfaction occasions — a monthlong celebration of the LGBTQ neighborhood 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 grew to become often called the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Rebellion — an illustration 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 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 numerous elements of the U.S. and around the globe, and New York Metropolis’s 2025 Satisfaction March, honoring the legacy of Stonewall, drew large crowds on Sunday.

Here’s a take a look at a number of the occasions from NYC to Washington, D.C., to Kathmandu and past.