The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement.
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IN SOME CI, GAYS FACE GREATER RISK OF BEG HOMELS
Gays often lack the kd of support om adult children or other fay members that prevents people om slidg to homelsns. In San Francis, they are twice as likely to be homels as straights, ditive of a problem major ci natnwi. * gay pride homeless spikes *
In the 1980s, gay men were ravaged by AIDS, wh the disease quickly spreadg to other mory groups across the globe.
The above photo shows marchers at New York Cy’s 1989 Lbian and Gay Pri Para mandg more rearch and fundg for AIDS treatments.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
1987 marked the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. "If you wore my logo T-shirt, people knew you were gay all over the world, " he says.
Now, Oviatt fds himself symbolizg somethg stark about the gay muny. A recent cens of the homels populatn San Francis found that 29 percent of them intify as gay. That is twice the share of the cy's total populatn that is gay, lbian or transgenr.
"There's this stereotype of the gay muny that we're all dog well and are affluent, " says San Francis Supervisor David Campos. " It's typil for young gays, who have often fled hostile environments, to make up a large proportn of the homels who are unr 25 — perhaps as much as 40 percent major ci such as Boston and Los Angel.