Rare Photos Show What Gay Pri Looked Like the 1970s | Time

Contents:

• 27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH
• CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
• GAY PRI MEMAYYY
• CORPORATNS GOG 'GAY' FOR PRI 2019 RUBS THE INTER THE WRONG WAY

27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH

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Celebratns and paras filled the streets some untri, but the moods were not bright everywhere, to say the York's first Pri March, then lled the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March, was held 1970 to mark the first anniversary of the Stonewall rebelln, a spontaneo street uprisg triggered by a police raid on a gay bar Manhattan. In a ncurrg opn, Jtice Clarence Thomas wrote that the urt might rensir other precents, mentng specifilly lgs protectg the rights to ntraceptn, same-sex timacy and gay marriage.

CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS

Meanwhile, Lori Lightfoot, Chigo’s first openly gay mayor and the first Black woman to hold the office, lled the lg a "momentary setback" and said Sunday's events were "an opportuny for to not only celebrate Pri but be rolved for the fight. So the spirt of Pri month, we thought we'd round up some of the funnit mem om Gay Twter to get you the mood for Pri.

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GAY PRI MEMAYYY

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Gabriel Anrson march wh Suts for Equaly durg the 45th annual San Francis Gay Pri para Sunday, June 28, 2015, San Francis. A woman wearg a stume walks away om Turkish rt police durg the Gay Pri para on June 28, 2015 the Istiklal street near the Taksim square Istanbul.

Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that is Pri Month for LGBT and queer people. Gee Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York Cy’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, documented scen om pri paras New York Cy om the late 1970s through the early ‘90s.

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The years saw Ana Bryant’s homophobic csa through the “Save Our Children” mpaign 1977, the electn and assassatn of Harvey Milk 1978, and the Whe Night rts the followg summer after the lenient sentencg of Milk’s murrer, Dan Whe. And October 1979, the Natnal March on Washgton for Gay and Lbian Rights took place wh roughly 100, 000 participants.

“It was, a sense, the year we buted on the larger public stage, ” says Jim Saslow, a profsor of art history at the Cy Universy of New York and an early gay activist. “We were beg acceptable enough that a gay person uld have a signifint polil reer, but we also beme very aware of how much of a nerve that was touchg for nservative people. Saslow, who was also a iend of Dudley’s, marks this era as a shift the gay liberatn movement.

But as the number of out gay people grew, says Saslow, the paras transned om timate gathergs of like-md people to events attend by a broar array of participants. “The muny started to attract more mastream folks who weren’t necsarily polilly radil or untercultural — they jt happened to be gay. “The guy a drs wh a beard, nng ont of the task force banner, ptur a lot of the atmosphere of the early gay liberatn muny, bee so much of me out of the hippie movement, ” says Saslow.

Members of the Natnal Gay Task Force march 1981. Partners Charl Llie and Frz Lohman began to exhib art by gay artists their SoHo loft 1969, the same year the Stonewall uprisg took place.