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Contents:
- GAY PRI
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
- IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
GAY PRI
A look back at a major turng pot the stggle for gay rights * 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.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
A ntgent at the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day New York clutch a sign that reads "Gay Liberatn, " 1970. 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. An LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
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. Gay and lbian parents march alongsi a "Parents of Gays" group, an early rnatn of the group FLAG, 1973.
IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
Gay Rights,.
Leonard Fk Photographs, The LGBT Communy Center Natnal History ArchiveMark SegalEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and marshal of the first Pri marchThe Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March was as revolutnary and chaotic as everythg we did that first year after the Stonewall rts. ” Today, my origal marshal’s badge is on display the JayEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians and -anizer of the first march New York and Los AngelIt was a near miracle that the first Christopher Street Wt Para Los Angel kicked off at all on June 28, 1970. Chantg gay liberatn slogans, we wore Halloween stum, our bt drag, tie-dye T-shirts, or almost nothg.
For one day, we were victor agast the Ed Davis of the world, and no one seemed “dismod” the FkelsteJohn KyperEarly member of Boston’s Gay Liberatn Front and an anizer of Boston’s first Pri ParaWe held our first march Boston 1971 — a year after New York. The march began at a baret bar lled Jacqu — which is still there and still gay — and ma three addnal stops along the route where we read a seri of mands. ActivistI grew up Jersey Cy close to the PATH tra and was lucky to fd my first boyiend my high school sophomore homeroom class.