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BIG GAY BBQ
On Saturday at 5:00 PM jo the Arenas Road Gayborhood Block Party. This block party is a signature Palm Sprgs Pri event foced on the heart of the Palm Sprgs gayborhood … a celebratn of Pri as well as the symbolic embrace of Arenas Road. We say GAY Palm Sprgs.
Palm Sprgs Gay Men’s Chos, 3 pm.
Friday’s ftivi lnch wh San Francis-based hyper-pop party FAKE and GAY settg the mood wh afternoon poolsi sets om DJs Adam Kraft, Casey MQ, Saturn and Ah-Mer-Ah-Su. Pri: “Say Gay! Pickg up on the Cy of Palm Sprgs’ Pri theme of Say Gay!
PARIS GAY PRI
He was the first openly gay person to n for public office the Uned Stat. His mpaign drew attentn to the potential polil strength of the gay muny. His activism paved the way for later succsful mpaigns by openly gay ndidat such as Harvey Milk, who was elected to the Board of Supervisors 16 years after Sarria’s bid.
In 1965 Sarria found the Imperial Court of San Francis, an associatn of charable anizatns that rais money primarily for gay . (CAPI), the Internatnal Associatn Pri Organizers (InterPri), the Internatnal Ftival and Events Associatn, the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (ILGA), the Transgenr Law Center, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, Equaly California, the Human Rights Commissn and the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights. The first Pri Para, named the Dert Gay and Lbian Pri Para, took to the streets of Palm Sprgs wh 35 uns and was greeted by hundreds of men and women.
GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
June 28 - the muny fights back followg a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village (police harassment was mon at that time for gay bar patrons due to a New York Cy law requirg a mimum of three articl of “genr-appropriate clothg”).
The natn’s first Gay Pri March is held New York Cy. The Natnal Gay Task Force (“Lbian” was add later) was formed to “brg gay liberatn to the mastream of Amerin civil rights. Congrs members Bella Abzug and Ed Koch troduced the first feral bill to clu language directed at protectg the rights of gays and lbians; the bill was feated.