Gay rights activist Larry “Dean” Maccubb was at a party wh iends 1975 when he me up wh the ia to create a gay pri event D.C.
Contents:
- SHAKG UP D.C.’S GAY NIGHTLIFE
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
- GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
SHAKG UP D.C.’S GAY NIGHTLIFE
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Capal Pri was origally lled Gay Pri Day.
It changed s name to Gay and Lbian Pri Day 1981, and to Capal Pri 2000. Black Pri is the first official black gay pri event the Uned Stat and one of two officially regnized ftivals for the Ain Amerin LGBT muny. Gay rights activist Larry “Dean” Maccubb was at a party wh iends 1975 when the topic of New York Pri eventually me up.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Had a robt, albe segregated, gay scene. Popular lol for Black gays clud the Nob Hill Rtrant and social clubs like the Bt of Washgton. [2] Whe gays equented plac like the Geetown Grill, the Lost and Found, and the DC Eagle.
In prr years, there had not been many n-s wh the police, but sudnly officers began askg to see intifitn at the Geetown Grill and harassg gay ctomers. Craig Howell, print of the Gay Activists’ Alliance om 1973-74 reunted, “One policeman had been g repeatedly askg for var a week or so ago this took an ugly turn when the policeman brought some of his buddi and did the ual harassment, and then afterwards they stayed outsi the grill when closed down and started harassg patrons by askg them for intifitn.
Dpe the ocsnal issu wh law enforcement, gay and lbian Washgtonians the ’70s were makg themselv more and more visible. In 1972, the Gay Liberatn Front of D. Had ordated a Gay Pri Week unr the learship of Chuck Hall, Bce Penngton, and Ca Ware.
REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
[4] The keynote event was a rally Lafayette Park where about 50 men and women were “llg for more public displays of affectn by homosexuals. ” Even though Gay Pri Week was a one-time occurrence, Maccubb’s event would turn to so much more.
Shortly after that fateful party early 1975, Maccubb ntacted his iend Bob Carpenter, a former print of the Gay Activists’ Alliance, to see if he wanted to ordate a new gay pri event D.
GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
Sce he was out of a job at the time, Carpenter agreed to help, and the two got to work planng a block party that they cid to ll “Gay Pri Day.
The first Gay Pri Day 1975 took place ont of Maccubb's own store, Lambda Risg.
(Source: Gay Bla, July 1975)The logil spot for the event was ont of the Lambda Risg bookstore on 20th St., N. It was the District’s first bookstore dited to sellg gay and lbian lerature, and Macubb was the owner. Gays who wanted to go to New York Pri later the month.