The ftively flamboyant marched alongsi somber remrs of the AIDS epimic Sunday the 19th annual Gay and Lbian Pri Para that drew tens of thoands to the streets of Wt Hollywood.
Contents:
- MIXED TONE FOR GAY MARCH : CELEBRATN OF PRI CONTRASTS WH CONCERN OVER AIDS EPIMIC
- QUEERRE: BEHD A DOCUMENTARY RELIVG THE GAY PUNK MOVEMENT
MIXED TONE FOR GAY MARCH : CELEBRATN OF PRI CONTRASTS WH CONCERN OVER AIDS EPIMIC
The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri. * pride parade 1988 *
Known then as the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March — named after the street on which Stonewall is loted — the para began on Washgton Place between Sheridan Square and Sixth Avenue and moved up Sixth Avenue, endg wh a “Gay-In” Central ia that LGBTQ+ people would march through the streets of New York Cy, proudly clarg their existence, their pri and their love was tly revolutnary back then. It was ually “a small, pole group of gays and lbians [would picket] outsi Liberty Hall, " Sargeant scrib. ” The event was put on by a gay men's rights group lled the Mattache Society, which was one of the earlit LGBTQ+ rights groups the Uned Stat ( formed 1950).
Acrdg to the History Channel, five months after Stonewall, Sargeant, Rodwell, and activists Ellen Brody and Lda Rhos attend the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia and proposed a rolutn: that an annual march be held on the last Sunday June New York Cy to memorate Stonewall. Many rried lorful pennants or signs readg "Gay Pri! " Bce not, "Comg om activist backgrounds, anizers and marchers stuck wh what they knew, prentg themselv as proud gay people through their signs, chants, and displays of affectn.
” Over a dozen LGBTQ+ rights groups were volved the planng, cludg lbian femist group the Lavenr Menace, formed rponse to mastream femism's excln of lbians; Gay Liberatn Front, formed post-Stonewall; lbian civil rights anizatn Dghters of Bilis; trans rights anizatn Queens Liberatn Front; and var stunt groups. It's her efforts that helped gay activists lay the foundatn for weeklong celebratns of gay pri leadg up to the climactic Gay Pri Para. "Sargeant and Rodwell ran the Osr Wil Bookshop, the first gay bookstore the untry, and they ed their mailg list to raise funds and spread the word.
QUEERRE: BEHD A DOCUMENTARY RELIVG THE GAY PUNK MOVEMENT
Many of the planng meetgs were also held at the bookstore; as the NYU webse Rearchg Greenwich Village History wr, "served as a type of muny center for the gay muny the village. Gay is good, gay is proud. Craig Schoonmaker was the one who had suggted the word “pri” rather than “gay power.
“It was only after the march that the gay pneers realized what might be possible, ” Sargeant relled. 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. The June pri paras have spread worldwi, evolvg to addrs new challeng while rememberg gay civil rights pneers.
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. Tensns wh police were a major factor the origal Stonewall, the LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day reach a police le 1971.