The annual Pri Para Boystown is a celebratn which ntu a tradn of gay pri Chigo which dat back over a century
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A HISTORY OF GAY PRI CHIGO
Though the first Gay Pri Liberatn March took place Manhattan 1970 to memorate the one-year anniversary of Stonewall, took 30 years for Pri Month to bee official, a 1999 proclamatn om former Print Bill Clton. It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag. Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.
S., to create a symbol of pri for the gay muny. As he later said an terview, “Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth, as I say, to get out of the lie. The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para.