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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.

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50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS

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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.

From protts and paras to the hom of early gay rights activists, the Southland has played a key role. * los angeles gay pride 2015 *

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.

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 *

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.

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