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pride parade 1991

Thanks everyone who me out to the Gay History Walk last night - what a crowd and great eveng!  On the walk I heard that Pri Calgary anizers are expectg 35,000 - 40,000 people out for the para on Sunday.  Amazg.  So I dug to the vlts and asked lleagu a few qutns to terme…

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FILE:GAY PRI PARA 1991, MADISON, WISNS (15)

The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri. * pride parade 1991 *

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.

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. Meanwhile, gay activists were anizg San Francis and timated 3, 000 people marched down Polk Street durg "Christopher Street Wt, " the first anized San Francis Gay Para, on June 25, 1972.

Here, parents march support of LGBTQ rights June 1974 Greenwich Village, New York the right is Amerin lawyer Dick Ashworth, marchg wh a sign that reads "I'm proud of my gay son. Pri paras ntued to grow size and populary the, a long-haired uple pos Central Park after a gay pri para New York on June 29, 1975.

LBIAN AND GAY PRI PARA 1991

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Here's what the San Francis pri para looked like durg Ameri's bicentennial queens pose at the "Gay Freedom Day Para" on June 27, 1976. Women were a key part of pri events om the very, members of the Women's Motorcycle Contgent get ready to ri at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 26, 1977. Here, a marcher scribed as a female impersonator pos at a gay pri para Copley Square, Boston, Massachetts, 1978.

Here, police arrt a protter durg a gay rights monstratn, which would bee known as the first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, June 1978.

FILE:GAY PRI PARA 1991, MADISON, WISNS (09)

In 1972, amid a large migratn of gay men, a buddg lear named Harvey Milk moved om New York Cy to the Castro District of San Francis, where he would later bee the first openly gay elected official , Harvey Milk appears at a Gay Pri Para 1978. Pri paras often allow diverse groups to e forward and seek, a group of lbian and gay Catholic activists hold a banner at the annual Pri Para New York Cy June 1980. By the 1980s, pri paras had popped up Mexi Cy, Montreal and, two women embrace durg the Gay Pri para New York Cy June 1982.

Counterprotters and hate msag have long acpanied pri, protters show their disapproval at a Gay Pri para New York June 1983. Two years after the first news story about AIDS appeared a New York publitn, gay activists are seen takg their fight agast the disease to the 's a view of the 1983 para New York Cy.

Among a crowd on the grass outsi the Civic Center San Francis, two women share a event: The 1984 Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para. A homophobic monstratn is seen on Fifth Avenue durg Gay Pri Day New York June protters hold plards equatg the current mayor wh the AIDS crisis.

DID NAMBLA MARCH GAY PRI PARAS THE 70S AND 80S?

Marchers appear on Market Street the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis, California on June 28, 1987. As seen om above, marchers, cludg a bagpipe player, display a Police Gay Officers Actn League banner on Christopher event: The annual New York Cy Pri March New York on June 30, 1985. A young girl intified only as Jennifer ris ont of her mother among the Dyk on Bik group, tablished event: The Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para, San Francis, June 15, 1985.

A man intified only as Pierre stands a doorway on Market Street durg the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para San year: 1987.

‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

Their fac reflected the motorcycle mirror unr a Pri flag, a pair of women the Dyk on Bik group wa the Castro District for the start of the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para, San Francis, on June 26, known as the San Francis Dyk on Bik Women's Motorcycle Contgent, the group supports chari the LGBT muny. A shirtls man pos a crowd on Market Street durg the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis , para anizers say the annual San Francis event is the largt gatherg of s kd the natn. Amerin textile artist and gay rights activist Gilbert Baker (1951-2017) seen here stumed as J, rri a cross as he march wh others on Market Street durg the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis, California, on June 24, 1990.

Men march the Gay Pri Para on June 1, 1991 Wt Hollywood, 2021, Los Angel-area pri events were nceled bee of the ronavis panmic. A group lled the Bety Queens pos, drsed up for a pri para 1950s-style bathg Pastel, a red glterg body su, would lead the group the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras on Febary 27, 1993.

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