From protts and paras to the hom of early gay rights activists, the Southland has played a key role.
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50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS
More than 400,000 people packed the streets of Wt Hollywood Sunday for the LA Pri Para, which celebrat the transgenr, lbian, gay and bisexual muni. * los angeles gay pride 2015 *
Pri Para, which celebrat the transgenr, lbian, gay and bisexual para began at 11 a. The unrtold story of that May 1959 uprisg was one of several gaps that prompted Lillian Farman and Stuart Timmons to wre their 2009 book, “Gay L. ” The Mattache Steps on Cove Avenue Silver Lake near the former home of early gay activist Harry Hay.
(Rirdo DeAratanha / Los Angel Tim) “We disvered that, historilly, more lbian and gay stutns started Los Angel than anywhere else on the pla, and that L. ’s multifaceted, multiracial, and multicultural lbian and gay activism ntu to have tremendo impact worldwi, ” they, Los Angel’ LGBTQ history is beg prerved by anizatns such as the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari and the June L.
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For Brskele, matag queer history Los Angel is about makg sure the next generatns know that there were others before them and have a sense of the history of the gay rights movement. The panmic has been particularly hard on gay bars, and several s-old favor — cludg Rage and Gold Coast — were forced to permanently close their doors. In May 1959, two LAPD officers entered the 24-hour fe popular wh the gay and transgenr muni and started askg for IDs, a mon form of police harassment.
From the 1920s to the 1960s, Pershg Square was the center of “The Run, ” a clter of gay-iendly tablishments and cisg spots nnectg the park to gay bars on Ma Street downtown Los Angel. Read AllRead Ls More Info Morris Kight's former rince Wtsi In 1969, Morris Kight -found the Los Angel chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front, a gay rights group that formed the wake of the Stonewall uprisg New York Cy.
The L.A. Pri Para and Ftival Wt Hollywood is a fixture of Los Angel life, but 50 years ago, was at the center of a heated battle between the thori and the LGBT muny’s wish to be publicly gay. * los angeles gay pride 2015 *
Read AllRead Ls More Info ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari Universy Park Archiv Based on the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Archiv, an extensive llectn of LGBTQ-related materials started by pneer activist Jim Kepner 1942, and merged wh the holdgs of ONE Instute 1994, the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv is nsired to be the largt reposory of LGBTQ materials the world. ’s Black LGBTQ muny who faced discrimatn at predomantly whe gay clubs and harassment om the Los Angel Police Department.
Read AllRead Ls More Info Tom of Fland Hoe Echo Park Mm This former home of homoerotic artist Too Laaksonen — better known as Tom of Fland — and currently owned by Laaksonen’s lover, bs partner and me, Durk Dehner, ho the Tom of Fland Foundatn. Read AllRead Ls More Info Harry Hay's former rince Silver Lake This is the former home of munist, labor activist and gay rights advote Harry Hay, who hosted the foundg meetgs of the Mattache Society 1950. One of the first natnwi gay rights anizatns, ’s nsired one of the openg salvos the morn gay rights movement.
It also happened to be the meetg pot for a seri of “gay-” protts anized to enurage the LGBTQ muny to e out of the closet and foster public acceptance. The first one took place there on Memorial Day 1968, and other high-profile protts there, anized by the Gay Liberatn Front, followed 1970 and 1971. A digal versn of the April 5, 1970, event poster, signed by Bce Reifel, n be viewed the ONE Natnal Gay and Lbian Archiv at USC.