Des of pa and perseverance San Francis's gay muny fally led to vditn the Bay Area and across the natn. This is a timele of historil events.
Contents:
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- PARADE 1972 FIRST GAY PRI PARA SAN FRANCIS
- EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
The California Supreme Court l that gays have the right to assemble, leadg to a proliferatn of gay bars and eventually the formatn of social and polil groups San Francis’s gay muny.
” Public sentiment begs to shift toward qutng harassment of the gay muny. This photo is of the sprawlg La Galleria ndomiums on the rner of Bh and Taylor streets on Thursday June 20, 2013, the se of the raid at the gay nightclub. Entertaer and drag queen Jose Sarria ns for San Francis supervisor, the first openly gay ndidate to n for public office the Uned Stat.
Life Magaze lls San Francis the “Gay Capal of Ameri.
PARADE 1972 FIRST GAY PRI PARA SAN FRANCIS
A group march down Polk Street to Cy Hall San Francis's first gay rights march.
A “gay-”' tak place the followg day Goln Gate Park. Harvey Milk is sworn to the San Francis Board of Supervisors beg the first openly gay cy official California history. San Francis hosts the Gay Gam, an ternatnal sports and culture event.
In a historic victory for gay rights, the U. Supreme Court l 5-4 that gays and lbians have the nstutnal right to marry their chosen partner.
EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
State Liquor Authory did not give out licens to tablishments that served gay patrons. Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody and Lda Rhos proposed a rolutn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia that a march be held New York Cy to memorate the one-year anniversary of the raid. ” The ia of “Gay Power” was thrown around, but Schoonmaker said gay dividuals lacked real power to make change, but one thg they did have was pri.
’” The official chant for the march beme, “Say loud, gay is proud. ”The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.
At the time, homosexual acts remaed illegal every state except Illois, and bars and rtrants uld get shut down for havg gay employe or servg gay patrons. Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them. Here, protters monstrate outsi the New York gay bar, Christopher's the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raid by police wh no warng.