LGBTQ History Month: The road to Ameri's first gay pri march

CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATION DAY 1971

Filmed by women, this on-the-street documentatn of one of New York’s early Gay Liberatn march is notable for s foregroundg of lbians the stggle for sexual eedom. The Stonewall Uprisg wasn’t the only prott durg that time (nor was the most tense, that signatn go to the Snake P rt), though 's remembered today as a turng pot the LGBT civil rights weekend brgs another 50th anniversary, this time of the para—the first gay rights march, held on June 28th, 1970, and now a centerpiece of Pri weekend New York Cy. 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.

)The Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March started Greenwich Village at about 2 p. And they had signs on tall wood sticks that said thgs like, "Gay Pri. “There were people on my left, people on my right, gays were jog every three blocks.

”Gay activists Lilli Vcenz and Cliff Wt produced a documentary of that day, terviewg people anonymoly.

REMEMBERG THE 1970 CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN DAY MARCH

They chanted thgs like, "Say loud, Gay is Proud" and “Out of the Closets and Into the Streets. They had a "gay-" stead, siar to the “be-s” of the time. 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.