How Activists Organized the First Gay Pri Paras | HISTORY

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• 50+ GAY PRI EVENTS & PARAS AROUND THE WORLD
• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

GAY PRI

People march past Gay Street the New York Cy Pri Para on June 26, 2022 New York Cy. The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement.

LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi. New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days.

50+ GAY PRI EVENTS & PARAS AROUND THE WORLD

The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement. A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held.

In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns. Baker, a proment gay rights activist, gave a nod to the strip of the Amerin flag but drew spiratn om the rabow to reflect the many groups wh the gay muny.

The 52nd annual San Francis Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Pri Celebratn and Para (Pri 52) is back live and person this weekend after gog virtual 2020 and as a ticketed social distancg event at Oracle Park 2021.

HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

The San Francis Dyke March is for women only, wh the tent of celebratg their love for one another, straight and Gay.

”Wendy Batterson of San Diego, another paragoer, said, “Homophobia is beg weaponized.

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

Realy star JoJo Siwa, who me out as gay to her followers 2021, was anoted the “Next Gen In” for the para.

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GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).

In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).

Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore.