How Activists Organized the First Gay Pri Paras | HISTORY

Contents:

• NEW YORK’S GAY PRI PARA ALL S GLORY
• MARC JABS, NBA STARS, KENH COLE & MORE CELEBRATE NYC GAY PRI
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC
• GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY

NEW YORK’S GAY PRI PARA ALL S GLORY

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MARC JABS, NBA STARS, KENH COLE & MORE CELEBRATE NYC GAY PRI

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PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

He didn’t ask how people intified — gay, straight, transgenr — unls they chose to share that rmatn on their own. NBC Out reached out to the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL NY), which participat the New York Cy Pri March.

HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

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"Ever sce, GOAL NY has been fightg to bat homophobia and transphobia wh the police said that protters "baed and antagonized" officers marchg wh GOAL NY, but he don't thk the celebratory mood of the para was dampened. Gay pri weekend ftivi New York Cy wrapped up the many celebratns throughout the untry and around the world that regnize the LGBT muny. The NBA ma history as the first profsnal sports league to march the NYC LGBT pri para last year, and returned today the Big Apple wh openly gay retired baller Jason Colls leadg the float.

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THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC

Our missnHerage of Pri is the non prof anizatn that plans and produc New York Cy's official LGBTQIA+ Pri events each year's events memorate the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969 — the begng of the morn Gay Rights missnAboutHerage of Pri works toward a future whout discrimatn where all people have equal rights unr the law. Rise + Rist, ACT UP, Uned Th Actn, and Gays Agast Guns are four of the groups who exprsed tert leadg the para. Krishna Stone is the Director of Communy Relatns at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC).

Geng set up one of the earlit gay social webs Cha— 2002. In 2012, he created Blued—a gay men social workg app after qutg his job workg as a policeman for 16 years. Jo on the Pri March through the Wt Village or giant parti at your favore gay bars wh the LGBTQ+ muny!

On Sunday, June 26th, New York Cy will host Gay Pri, the yearly celebratn of the LGBTQ muny. The first para took place on June 28th, 1970, on the one-year anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn which galvanized the morn gay rights movement. In 1993, the gural Queens Pri Para and Multicultural Ftival took place the historilly gay neighborhood of Jackson Heights and was the first such event to be anized a borough outsi the more gay-tolerant Manhattan.

GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY

Co-anized by Daniel Dromm and Marza Martez, the para brought together a diverse group of LGBT people and alli om Queens and around the cy, and sought to promote pri, visibily, and acceptance followg years of homophobic hate crim and discrimatn. After the openg of LaGuardia Airport, gay travelers and flight attendants waed out layovers by visg a small entertament district on 37th Avenue. Begng the 1970s, Lato immigrants arrived Jackson Heights large numbers and, gradually, gay bars the area tered predomantly to LGBT Latos.

Until the activism spurred on by the gay-biased murr of Jul Rivera  July 1990, however, the LGBT muny of the neighborhood — and Queens general — was largely visible. The Queens Pri Para formed rponse to Rivera’s murr and, more directly, to the 1992 homophobic outcry over the cln of gay and lbian ntent the Children of the Rabow curriculum, which was signed to teach children tolerance of all of New York Cy’s diverse muni. As a rult, former Cy Council Member Daniel Dromm, who was then a public school teacher the borough’s Communy School District 24 (where the ntroversy was centered), me out as openly gay and cid to unter the ensug propaganda wh a fay-iendly celebratory para that would promote LGBT visibily and pri, and be based a neighborhood where many closeted gay people lived.