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GAY PRI

* earliest gay pride marches *

A look back at a major turng pot the stggle for gay rights. Every Fourth of July begng 1965, the Remr march—named after the need to "remd" the public of the opprsn faced by the gay muny—aimed to secure acceptance by showg how unthreateng LGBT people were to the rt of society.

One year later, 1970, activists like Brenda Howard brastormed an alternative set of march that would embrace the new ethos of gay liberatn. ” The march would also be natnal spe— a forhadowg of Pri celebratns today, they wanted "a natnwi show of support" for gay rights. A ntgent at the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day New York clutch a sign that reads "Gay Liberatn, " 1970.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

View of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, 1970.

INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN

An LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971. A uple at an LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.

One ntgent at the 1971 Christopher Street Liberatn Day was the Gay Activists Alliance, one of a nstellatn of gay liberatn groups that formed after the Stonewall Rts.