New York Cy was the se of the natn’s first gay pri para on June 28, 1970. A few other ci also held march that year.
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THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement. LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi.
New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days. The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement. A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held.
In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns. Baker, a proment gay rights activist, gave a nod to the strip of the Amerin flag but drew spiratn om the rabow to reflect the many groups wh the gay muny. Harvey Milk, the San Francis Supervisor who was the first openly gay elected official California, challenged his iend, gay rights activist Gilbert Baker, to e up wh a symbol of pri for the muny.