Rare Photos Show What Gay Pri Looked Like the 1970s | Time

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At the time, was the rare neighborhood where gay people uld go and meet public, and Pri paras operated at a neighborhood-level size too — a far cry om the timated five ln people who attend last July’s World Pri event New York Cy, the largt LGBTQ celebratn history.

While the Stonewall anniversary had long provid the timg for annual Pri events, Print Bill Clton issued a proclamatn 1999 that every June would be Gay and Lbian Pri Month the U. Have that rabow mean somethg 365 days out of the year, ” Ellen Broidy, a member of the Gay Liberatn Front and -founr of the first annual Gay Pri March 1970, told TIME last year.

For others, livg environments where beg gay risks state-sanctned vlence and even ath, Pri events perform a functn siar to that seen plac like New York the 1970s, as a val lifele.