Thoands Turn Out for Ftive Gay Pri Para - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• THOANDS TURN OUT FOR FTIVE GAY PRI PARA
• LBIAN AND GAY PRI PARA, LONDON, JUNE 1985
• 50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS
• GAY RIGHTS

THOANDS TURN OUT FOR FTIVE GAY PRI PARA

Of urse, ’s worth rellg while lookg at the celebratory pictur that 1985 was also a time of growg anxiety among the gay muny—the year that The Normal Heart premiered and the AIDS Foundatn of Chigo was tablished.

Los Angel’ 15th annual Gay Pri para Sunday, cked out as ual outrageo stume and ser tent, drew ftive crowds led five-ep along a 1 1/2-e stretch of Santa Moni Boulevard Wt Hollywood. Rivalg gay pri march New York and San Francis size, the Wt Hollywood para drew between 50, 000 and 150, 000 well-mannered spectators, the Sheriff’s Department reported.

”The 31-year-old mayor has been to gay march all over the untry, and everywhere “people say they were g here this year bee Wt Hollywood means so much to them, ” she said.

LBIAN AND GAY PRI PARA, LONDON, JUNE 1985

”That was the msage among the plards and banners and enthiastic cheers as an timated 8, 000 marchers--rangg om transvt to an orrly group of teachers, doctors and scientists--ma the Gay Pri para the third largt number of participants Southern California, rankg behd only the Rose and Santa Cls Lane paras, said Gee Piazzi, a director of Christopher Street Wt, the nonprof group that ns the para. ” Ford said three to four arrts are ually ma durg the full two-day gay ftival, which clus the para, sports events and a those at curbsi as bands, baton twirlers, relig groups and policians passed was Pl, a 62-year-old manager of a clothg bs Monterey Park.

For the para’s Grand Marshals, Lambda Pri chose four San Diego anizatns: PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays), the Gay Youth Alliance, the Coupl Club, and Gay Fathers. They also named Blood Sisters, an anizatn of lbian women the ‘80s who anized blood driv support of the gay men who uldn’t donate blood bee of the AIDS crisis, as Honorary Grand Marshals. Patrick's; bottom left, a prit stands behd a lbian/"gay" left, a homosexual choir sgg "Ameri the Betiful;" bottom right, another anizatn affirms their vice.

On June 28, 1969, members of New York Cy's gay muny rose up agast opprsn and state-sponsored vlence, fightg back an event now known as the Stonewall Rts or Stonewall a few years, anized, annual paras of pri and remembrance would emerge to mark the event. Pri paras have always tackled multiple goals, ongog anti-gay bigotry among, gay activists prott discrimatn at the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day June 1971 New York Cy.

50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS

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GAY RIGHTS

Meanwhile, gay activists were anizg San Francis and timated 3, 000 people marched down Polk Street durg "Christopher Street Wt, " the first anized San Francis Gay Para, on June 25, 1972. Here, parents march support of LGBTQ rights June 1974 Greenwich Village, New York the right is Amerin lawyer Dick Ashworth, marchg wh a sign that reads "I'm proud of my gay son. Women were a key part of pri events om the very, members of the Women's Motorcycle Contgent get ready to ri at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 26, 1977.

In 1972, amid a large migratn of gay men, a buddg lear named Harvey Milk moved om New York Cy to the Castro District of San Francis, where he would later bee the first openly gay elected official , Harvey Milk appears at a Gay Pri Para 1978. Pri paras often allow diverse groups to e forward and seek, a group of lbian and gay Catholic activists hold a banner at the annual Pri Para New York Cy June 1980. Two years after the first news story about AIDS appeared a New York publitn, gay activists are seen takg their fight agast the disease to the 's a view of the 1983 para New York Cy.