Speech of San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk at Gay Freedom Day, June 25, 1978.

Contents:

• EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
• A HISTORY OF GAY FREEDOM DAY, DYKE MARCH, AND TRANS MARCH
• SAN FRANCIS LBIAN/GAY FREEDOM BAND
• 1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
• SPEECH OF SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK AT GAY FREEDOM DAY, JUNE 25, 1978.
• HARVEY MILK'S SPEECH AT SAN FRANCIS'S GAY FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATN

EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970

Earlier this month, the GLBT Historil Society Mm unveiled a glass se ntag a rare artifact: a segment of the origal rabow gay pri flag, s lors as vibrant as ever.

A HISTORY OF GAY FREEDOM DAY, DYKE MARCH, AND TRANS MARCH

Baker, Segerblom, McNamara and other activists first flew two versns of their brilliantly lored flag at the Uned Natns Plaza on June 25, 1978, celebratn of “Gay Freedom Day. The artist proposed a rabow as a “morn alternative” to the pk triangle—a symbol ed by the Nazis to mark and persecute gay people, and one which queer muni have sce reclaimed as a symbol of pri. “[The rabow flag] don’t say the word ‘Gay, ’ and don’t say ‘the Uned Stat’ on the Amerin flag, but everyone knows visually what they mean, ” Baker said a 2015 nversatn wh curator Michelle Millar Fisher.

That year at San Francis Pri – then known as “Gay Freedom Day” – Baker and a hort of LGBTQ+ rights advot stched together and hoisted two giant versns above the cy’s UN Plaza, near cy origal flags were nsired to have vanished. The mm’s executive director, Terry Bwick, said the flag, which was unveiled at a ceremony last Friday, was signed as “a symbol that would reprent the full spectm of the LGBTQ muny” two origal eight-lor rabow flags flyg at Uned Natns Plaza 1978 durg San Francis Gay Freedom Day.

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SAN FRANCIS LBIAN/GAY FREEDOM BAND

A lot of progrs has been ma toward this goal the last 50 years, cludg a Supreme Court lg jt two weeks ago that gay employe were protected om job discrimatn unr the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but the fight is far om over.

1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO

Thirty people marched down Polk street as part of the San Francis Gay Liberatn March, acrdg to Mark Sawch om the GLBT Historil Society Mm San forward several s later, crowds have grown om thoands to more than a ln participants paradg down Market Street every year --- at least until the COVID-19 panmic.

SPEECH OF SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK AT GAY FREEDOM DAY, JUNE 25, 1978.

And went back to 1970, was a two day event that June Here's how to watch 2023 San Francis Pri Para on ABC7Sawch says there was a piic "gay-" gatherg Goln Gate Park's Speedway found TONS of footage our ABC7 News archive datg back to the 1972 para when was lled Christopher Street Wt.

HARVEY MILK'S SPEECH AT SAN FRANCIS'S GAY FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATN

Sawch says the tle referenc the street New York Cy's Greenwich Village neighborhood where Stonewall and other tablishments tered to LGBTQ the para's ceptn 51 years ago, the para has gone through several name Origal rabow flag returns home to SF, displayed at GLBT Historil Society1973 -1980: Gay Freedom Day1981 - 1994: Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para1995 - 2013: San Francis Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Celebratn2014- to prent: San Francis Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Para and CelebratnMORE: San Francis Internatnal Airport opens termal honorg Harvey MilkOf urse, the para is now simply referred to as "San Francis Pri.

"WATCH: LOOKBACK: What gay life was like San Francis 1976Throughout the years, ntgents the para took a stance for eedom of speech, fightg for equal rights and more fundg for AIDS rearch. It was officially lled the Gay Freedom Day up until 1981 when beme known as the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Freedom Day Para, and then changg aga 1995 to the San Francis Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Celebratn.