Crowd gatherg to march the Los Angel Christopher Street Wt pri para. June 28, 1970. On June 28, 1970, Hollywood hosted the natn’s first legally permted LGBT Para, helpg spark gay pri and the right for equaly California. Tired of prejudice and bigotry, homosexuals fought back agast illegal vlence by police East…
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On June 28, 1970, Hollywood hosted the natn’s first legally permted LGBT Para, helpg spark gay pri and the right for equaly California. Tired of prejudice and bigotry, homosexuals fought back agast illegal vlence by police East Hollywood’s Black Cat Cafe 1967 and the more well known Stonewall Rts New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969.
Morris Kight, lear of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rev.
Troy Perry, founr of Metropolan Communy Church, veloped the ia for a legimate para to celebrate the one year anniversary of gays standg up for their rights rather than marchg or holdg a rally.
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34 groups om across the state, both straight and gay, band together unr the name Christopher Street Wt to sponsor the para. None expected to be easy, sce homosexualy was illegal California, and no one had ever experienced large groups of LGBT people openly marchg and proclaimg their inty. Davis railed to Perry that “…givg a perm to a group of homosexuals to march down Hollywood Boulevard would be the same as givg a perm to a group of thiev and robbers.
The group issued a statement that holdg the para would “show people that homosexuals are human begs wh the same civil rights and civil liberti as other rints, ”. ” The “gay power” para began at 7 pm at the rner of Hollywood Boulevard and McCadn Place headg the half e east to Ivar Avenue. Some marchers chanted, “Two, Four, Six, Eight – gay is jt as good as straight.