Delight Month images 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 Delight occasions — a monthlong celebration of the LGBTQ group that additionally symbolizes an ongoing combat for equal rights and inclusion.

The roots of Delight 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 generally known as the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Rebellion — an illustration that is now thought-about the beginning of the LGBTQ rights motion. Marches happened 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. Delight Month first gained federal recognition in 1999 from then-President Invoice Clinton.

Delight marches and festivals have been going down all through the month in several components of the U.S. and around the globe, and New York’s 2025 Delight 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.