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The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri. * 50 years gay pride *
On June 28, 1969, members of New York Cy's gay muny rose up agast opprsn and state-sponsored vlence, fightg back an event now known as the Stonewall Rts or Stonewall a few years, anized, annual paras of pri and remembrance would emerge to mark the event.
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WHERE GAY PRI BEGAN 50 YEARS AGO
* 50 years gay pride *
Meanwhile, gay activists were anizg San Francis and timated 3, 000 people marched down Polk Street durg "Christopher Street Wt, " the first anized San Francis Gay Para, on June 25, 1972. Here, parents march support of LGBTQ rights June 1974 Greenwich Village, New York the right is Amerin lawyer Dick Ashworth, marchg wh a sign that reads "I'm proud of my gay son.
" He later beme one of the foundg members of PFLAG — Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays. Pri paras ntued to grow size and populary the, a long-haired uple pos Central Park after a gay pri para New York on June 29, 1975. Here's what the San Francis pri para looked like durg Ameri's bicentennial queens pose at the "Gay Freedom Day Para" on June 27, 1976.
Meanwhile, here's a look at San Francis's 1977 Gay Pri Para. Here's a view of the 1977 gay pri para on Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Massachetts. Women were a key part of pri events om the very, members of the Women's Motorcycle Contgent get ready to ri at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 26, 1977.
In 1972, members of the LGBTQ+ muny marched through London mandg equaly and celebratg their inti. Five s on, Ted Brown om the Gay Liberatn Front reunts his memori of that time * 50 years gay pride *
Pri paras often serve as a way for gay people to safety exprs themselv public spac.
Here, a marcher scribed as a female impersonator pos at a gay pri para Copley Square, Boston, Massachetts, 1978. Not all early gay-rights march were supported by police. Here, police arrt a protter durg a gay rights monstratn, which would bee known as the first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, June 1978.
In 1972, amid a large migratn of gay men, a buddg lear named Harvey Milk moved om New York Cy to the Castro District of San Francis, where he would later bee the first openly gay elected official , Harvey Milk appears at a Gay Pri Para 1978.
On 28 June 1969, events at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn sparked a multi-day rt that birthed the morn gay rights movement and the gural pri para 1970. * 50 years gay pride *
Here, gay activists at a San Francis pri para appear a still om the ABC seri "ABC News Closp. " The tle of the 1979 episo: "Homosexuals. A marcher appears on the ABC seri "ABC News Closp" episo "Homosexuals.
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Pri paras often allow diverse groups to e forward and seek, a group of lbian and gay Catholic activists hold a banner at the annual Pri Para New York Cy June 1980.