Chigo hosted the first Gay Pri Para the Uned Stat on June 27, 1970. Here's a look back at how the annual event has evolved through the years.
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The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri. * pride parade 1980 *
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.