Whether you are the LGBTQ+ muny or an ally, this blog post provis sight to the gay pri para the LGBT+ lendar!
Contents:
- GAY PRI
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- GAY PRI 101: A BEGNER’S GUI TO GAY PRI PARA
- INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
GAY PRI
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * was ist gay pride parade *
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 Park.
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).
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
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.
GAY PRI 101: A BEGNER’S GUI TO GAY PRI PARA
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.
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
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. "AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTSargeant 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.