Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day was the birth of the Pri movement. This is the story of how a few people ed the rt at Stonewall to change the world
Contents:
- REMEMBERG THE 1970 CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN DAY MARCH
- INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
- LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
- CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN DAY, THE STORY OF THE FIRST PRI
REMEMBERG THE 1970 CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN DAY MARCH
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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. ” 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.
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
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Chantg gay liberatn slogans, we wore Halloween stum, our bt drag, tie-dye T-shirts, or almost nothg. 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.
LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
On November 2, 1969, jt 4 months after the Stonewall rts Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Lda Rhos of the newly formed Gay… * christopher gay liberation day *
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CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN DAY, THE STORY OF THE FIRST PRI
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And if we hadn't done that, nobody would remember the Stonewall today, ” said Karla Jay, a former women’s and genr studi profsor at Pace Universy, and the first woman chair of the Gay Liberatn says that wh a few days of Stonewall, flyers were already circulatg llg for a new kd of movement that wasn’t pole, and wouldn’t stay the shadows. ”Gay activists Lilli Vcenz and Cliff Wt produced a documentary of that day, terviewg people anonymoly.