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.
QUEERRE: BEHD A DOCUMENTARY RELIVG THE GAY PUNK MOVEMENT
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