To: Board of Supervisors
From: Ken Carlson, District IV Supervisor
Report Title: Resolution declaring June 2024, LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in Contra Costa County.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
ADOPT resolution declaring June 2024, LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in Contra Costa County, as recommended by Supervisor Carlson.
FISCAL IMPACT:
None
BACKGROUND:
See resolution text.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
None
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
and for Special Districts, Agencies and Authorities Governed by the Board
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IN THE MATTER OF declaring June 2024, LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in Contra Costa County
WHEREAS, the month of June was chosen for LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual) Pride Month to commemorate the rise of the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement that grew out of spontaneous civil rights demonstrations by members of the LGBTQIA+ community against unjust police raids that took place in New York City at the end of June 1969, known as the Stonewall Riots; and
WHEREAS, former President Obama designated the Stonewall Inn as a National Monument in 2016 because of the role it played in the struggle for LGBTQIA+ acceptance in the U.S., the Stonewall Riots inspire LGBTQIA+ people, not only in the U.S. but throughout the world, in the struggle for civil rights; and
WHEREAS, Contra Costa Health, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, and Contra Costa Behavioral Health Services, through the work of the LGBTQ Pride Initiative, received the prestigious national designations of Leader in Healthcare Equality or Top Performer in Healthcare Equality each year since 2013 from the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQIA+ advocacy organization in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Contra Costa Health identified the need for a specialty clinic to serve the transgender and gender-diverse community and started the...
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