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. “For me, was a time to brg the muny together, and for them to know they are not alone, wherever they are hidg, ” says Nabager, addg that people who might not have seen themselv as LGBTQ activists me to the event, and later joed wh advotg for gay rights the untry. Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that is Pri Month for LGBT and queer people.

Gee Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York Cy’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, documented scen om pri paras New York Cy om the late 1970s through the early ‘90s. The years saw Ana Bryant’s homophobic csa through the “Save Our Children” mpaign 1977, the electn and assassatn of Harvey Milk 1978, and the Whe Night rts the followg summer after the lenient sentencg of Milk’s murrer, Dan Whe.