A police raid at the Black Cat Tavern led to protts outsi the gay bar that predated the Stonewall rts by more than two years. The event will be memorated Saturday.
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- LOS ANGEL GAY PRI PARA MORPHS TO #RISTMARCH
- GPS: GAY PRI SATURDAY
- 50 YEARS AGO THE FIRST MAJOR GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN HAPPENED SILVER LAKE
- GAY IN THE BABADOOK WAS THE UNOFFICIAL MAST OF LA PRI, AND IT WAS GLOR
LOS ANGEL GAY PRI PARA MORPHS TO #RISTMARCH
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GPS: GAY PRI SATURDAY
1970The first LA Pri ParaThe first para took place Hollywood — at a time when gay sex was actually illegal California. It was anized to memorate the 1969 Stonewall rts, an uprisg triggered by a police raid of a gay bar New York LGBTQ muny L.
Officers beat gay patrons and arrted 14 for same-sex kissg — which was illegal durg the time — at the Black Cat on New Year’s Day 1967. That event sparked gay-rights protts.
50 YEARS AGO THE FIRST MAJOR GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN HAPPENED SILVER LAKE
Young men chant agast the Briggs proposn durg the Gay Pri Para held on Hollywood Boulevard.
The mpaign, created by celebry photographer Adam Boka and his partner Jeff Parshley, rallied for marriage equaly and gay rights by g imag of people wearg duct tape over their mouths, symbolizg their voic beg “silenced.
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