Pictur om gay pri paras held across the US and around the world this past weekend. |
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CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
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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. 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.
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Pri month is celebrated June to memorate the 1969 Stonewall uprisg Manhattan. Although the ronavis panmic curtailed ftivi, many revellers adapted to the new circumstanc * gay pride pictures *
“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.