The LWWA is hosting our second annual “Pride in the Vines” as a celebration of Pride Month June 1st-30th 2024! We are proud to offer a Passport to DC’s Wine Country with Pride in the Vines Wine Trail. This amazing month long celebration is sponsored by our friends at Visit Loudoun.
Visit any of the nineteen participating Loudoun County wineries to pickup a passport and start collecting stamps! Once you visit your 10th winery, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win one of several amazing prizes! Prizes include private wine tastings, bottles of wine, gear, tickets to events, and tours of the vineyards and wineries.
PARTICIPATING WINERIES:
50 West Winery and Vineyard
Details and Guidelines:
Must be 21 to enter.
Pick-up your passport at the first participating winery that you visit as of June 1, 2024.
Fill out your passport as soon as you pick it up. Your passport is to be used by you only. Please do not share passports.
Present the passport at each participating winery for one stamp per winery.
Turn your passport in at the winery where you get your 10th stamp.
The drawing will be held after the end of the month and you will be contacted at the information you provided on the passport.
Pride History
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer + (LGBTQ+) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially known as “Gay Pride Day”, but the actual day was flexible. In major cities across the nation the “day” soon to encompass a month-long series of events. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQ+ Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world.
Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally. Also, on June 26, 2015 the Supreme Court legalized a national right to same-sex marriages.
In 1994, a coalition of education-based organizations in the United States designated October as LGBT History Month.
In 1995, a resolution passed by the General Assembly of the National Education Association included LGBT History Month within a list of commemorative months. National Coming Out Day (October 11), as well as the first “March on Washington” in 1979 are commemorated in the LGBTQ community during LGBT History Month.
From Library of Congress