Gay Freedom Day 1974 - FoundSF

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
• A HISTORY OF GAY FREEDOM DAY, DYKE MARCH, AND TRANS MARCH
• EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
• GAY FREEDOM DAY
• SPEECH OF SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK AT GAY FREEDOM DAY, JUNE 25, 1978.
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

GAY PRI

Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood.

HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED

Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).

A HISTORY OF GAY FREEDOM DAY, DYKE MARCH, AND TRANS MARCH

In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year). Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore.

In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag. As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march.

EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970

The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e. On June 25, 1978, the nth anniversary of the Stonewall Rt New York Cy, Harvey Milk gave an impassned speech to his fellow San Francisns celebratg Gay Freedom Day.

The two most visible figur behd the legislative manvers were John Briggs, a state Senator California, who sought to remove openly lbian and gay teachers wh Proposn 6 (the phrase “public homosexual” repeats throughout the proposn); and Ana Bryant, whose “Save Our Children” anizatn succsfully helped overturn equal rights ordanc Miami, Florida; Eugene, Oregon; Wicha, Kansas; and St. The first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights was held on October 14, 1979, wh a five pot platform:.

GAY FREEDOM DAY

Protect lbian and gay youth om any laws which are ed to discrimate, opprs, and/or harass them their hom, schools, jobs, and social environments. “That’s What Ameri Is”: Delivered by San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk, June 25, 1978 (Gay Freedom Day). And here, so-lled liberal San Francis, we have a lumnist for the San Francis Examer, a lumnist named Kev Starr, who has prted a number of lumns ntag distortns and li about gays.

And fally, I want to tell the John Briggs and the Ana Bryants that they talk about the myths of gays, but today I’m talkg about the facts of heterosexual vlence and what the hell are you gog to do about that? Clean up your act, clean up your vlence before you cricize lbians and gay men bee of their sexualy.

There are some fifteen to twenty ln lbians and gay men this natn listeng and listeng very refully. When you speak out, then and only then, will some twenty ln lbians and gay men be able to say Jimmy Carter is our print, too! If you do not speak out, if you rema silence, if you do not lift up your voice agast Briggs, then I ll upon lbians and gay men om all over the natn, your natn, to gather Washgton one year om now on that natnal day of eedom, the fourth of July…the fourth of July, 1979…to gather Washgton on that very same spot where over a ago Dr.

SPEECH OF SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK AT GAY FREEDOM DAY, JUNE 25, 1978.

I ll upon all mori and pecially the lns of lbians and gay men to wake up om their dreams…to gather Washgton and tell Jimmy Carter and their natn: “Wake up…wake up, Ameri…no more racism, no more sexism, no more ageism, no more hatred…no more! Marchers holdg “Gay Freedom by ’76” banner at O’Farrell and Polk durg Gay Freedom Day Para, June 30, 1974. The San Francis Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Para and Celebratn (“San Francis Pri”) turns 50 years old this year.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

The spontaneo Stonewall Uprisg occurred there rponse to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969. There was no event June 1971, but the Age of Aquari Para on Folsom Street Augt 1971 featured some gay marchers and floats.

About 15, 000 people turned out to see “elaborate floats, gay horseback rirs, marchg bands, and drag queens throwg kiss.

”(1) Durg Civic Center speech, the crowd nounced Mayor Joseph Alto for failg to proclaim the day as “Gay Liberatn Day.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Miss Cowgirl 74/75 on hay bale back of r at O’Farrell and Polk durg Gay Freedom Day Para, June 30, 1974.

(3) For the June 29, 1975 Gay Freedom Day Para, about 10, 000 people proudly marched ont of an timated crowd of 72, 000. Para officials believed the turnout was a rult of the attentn that Ana Bryant was gettg for her anti-gay csa Florida and the murr of a gay cy garner by four youths the prr week. Another huge crowd, timated at 240, 000, turned out for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25th.

Willie Brown urged everyone to register to vote, so they uld oppose a statewi iative sponsored by Fullerton Republin Assemblyman John Briggs that would perm public school districts to fire homosexuals. On the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg, an timated 300, 000 joed the Gay Freedom Day Para ftivi on Market Street and the Civic Center.