Gay Day: The Goln Age of the Christopher Street Para 1974-1983: O'Neal, Hank: 9780810955080: Books

Contents:

• GAY DAY: THE GOLN AGE OF THE CHRISTOPHER STREET PARA 1974-1983 HARDVER – ILLTRATED, MAY 2, 2006
• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• INPENNT BOOKSTORE DAY – GAY HISTORY: NYC’S CHRISTOPHER STREET BOOKSTORE COMMERCIAL [VIO – CIR 1980’S]
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• CHRISTOPHER STREET – INTERNATNAL SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN

GAY DAY: THE GOLN AGE OF THE CHRISTOPHER STREET PARA 1974-1983 HARDVER – ILLTRATED, MAY 2, 2006

The History of Gay Pri BerlThe Christopher Street Day is held memory of the Stonewall Rts, the first big uprisg of homosexuals agast police asslts New York Cy on June 27, 1969. The first Christopher Street Day Berl took place on June 30, 1979 - "Gay Pri" was the motto unr which 450 prottors took to the streets of Wt Berl.

The queer, gay and lbian scene Berl is huge and offers a large number of events, mms, shows and entertament optns to visors and lols. Leonard Fk Photographs, The LGBT Communy Center Natnal History ArchiveMark SegalEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and marshal of the first Pri marchThe Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March was as revolutnary and chaotic as everythg we did that first year after the Stonewall rts.

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

” Today, my origal marshal’s badge is on display the JayEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians and -anizer of the first march New York and Los AngelIt was a near miracle that the first Christopher Street Wt Para Los Angel kicked off at all on June 28, 1970. For one day, we were victor agast the Ed Davis of the world, and no one seemed “dismod” the FkelsteJohn KyperEarly member of Boston’s Gay Liberatn Front and an anizer of Boston’s first Pri ParaWe held our first march Boston 1971 — a year after New York. The march began at a baret bar lled Jacqu — which is still there and still gay — and ma three addnal stops along the route where we read a seri of mands.

ActivistI grew up Jersey Cy close to the PATH tra and was lucky to fd my first boyiend my high school sophomore homeroom class. Jam GreenProfsor of morn Lat Amerin history at Brown Universy and -anizer of Brazil’s first Gay Pri marchI lived São Plo durg the dictatorship of the late 1970s. Groups hosted the 17th ternatnal nference of ILGA (The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn), and the energy of the ternatnal legat who attend and the excement of hostg the gatherg only add to the drama of the untry’s first actual succsful para.

INPENNT BOOKSTORE DAY – GAY HISTORY: NYC’S CHRISTOPHER STREET BOOKSTORE COMMERCIAL [VIO – CIR 1980’S]

The fear was Schal/Associated PrsChiké Frankie EdozienAuthor of “Liv of Great Men: Livg and Lovg as an Ain Gay Man”I me to the U.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Over the urse of the early 20th century, was a safe haven for New York's LGBTQ muny and home to events—cludg the Stonewall Inn protts—that would bee flash pots for the mastreamg of the gay rights movement all across the remas to this day an important symbol of LGBTQ life New York (photographs of the sign at s tersectn wh Gay Street are tourist souvenir shop stapl), even though 's now more populated wh luxury shops and extravagant gyms than the nightlife hotspots that was once famo for. At this time gay bars were still not openly operatg, but the way the thory wrote s l meant they would later bee the unexpected llateral damage of the legislatn.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

While the thory did not directly ce gay bars any of s extensive regulatns, police will go on to terpret a le agast nng a "disorrly" tablishment to mean venu equented by gay people. A need for as many drafts as possible after Pearl Harbor meant that when gay people enlisted the army, they weren't turned away. Durg this time, the FBI matas a list of gay Amerins, who will subsequently be targeted by police for an array of illegal activi, cludg habatn and kissg the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, many queer people of lor had been leadg a (relatively) open life the north Manhattan neighborhood—as celebrated gay artist Bce Nugent put : "Nobody was the closet.

CHRISTOPHER STREET – INTERNATNAL SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

Drag queens beg to flock to the Village om all over the cy, pg plac where drsg female clothg public rults eher arrt, or beatg om homophobic vigilant. In the face of laws barrg gay men om beg seen public together, gay men and drag queens beg to cise the wateront and steal away wh anonymo lovers to the squalid flopho dotted along the P.

Proprietors of gay-iendly bars are routely harassed; gay patrons are refed a bid to spotlight this discrimatn, on April 21, 1966 the gay rights group the Mattache Society cis to hold a Sip-. Activists hatch a plan to go around bars the Village, and tt out whether they will still receive service after revealg to bartenrs that they are gay—all ont of the half dozen reporters they have ved along for the ri. The former 1920s speakeasy—which is still around today—is actually an gno gay bar, but the manager is hoots wh the activists and ref them service ont of the reporters.

Amid the chaos and uncertaty happeng on Christopher Street, 's a moment that's e to be known as the trigger for the morn mastreamg of the gay rights movement.

MOSW GAY BARS

In the immediate aftermath of Stonewall, gay activists and rints of the neighborhood beg batg how to harns the thst of the rts to an assertive fight for eedom.

On June 28, a few hundred gay men and lbians march om Christopher Street up Sixth Ave and to Central Park bearg handma banners wh slogans like "Gay Pri" and "Gay is Good. In 1970, for a brief perd of time, 's a gay dis lled Haven that circumvents the jurisdictn of the State Liquor Authory by operatg as a "juice bar.

" After Stonewall, relatns between the police and gay muny are still tense, and Augt, police raid the club on the grounds that they're searchg for dgs.

INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN

The Osr Wil Bookshop, found by leadg gay activist Craig Rodwell as the first store New York to exclively sell tl by gay and lbian thors, mov to Christopher Street. First opened at 291 Mercer Street 1967, mov to the rner of Christopher and Gay Streets (the etymology of Gay Street's name, cintally, is a total cince) held on Christopher Street for the victims of the Orlando shootg. Cmpley opens fire outsi a li at the rner of Washgton and 10th Streets, woundg two people before movg on to Ramrod, a gay club on Wt Street between 10th and Christopher.

Reports beg to spread of gay men the Uned Stat beg sick wh what is at first thought to be rare forms of ncer and immune diseas. By 1982 the term AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is formally troduced by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn for the disease that is sweepg through the untry, and cimatg the Village's gay populatn. The health partment shuts down the Mecraft, a gay S&M club that has been open sce 1976, on the grounds that s activi uld spread AIDS.