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Contents:
- INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
- JUNE 28, 1970: GAY AND PROUD
- ‘GAY AND PROUD’ HISTORIL FILM PROVIS LOOK BACK AT EARLY PRI MARCH
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- WATCH FOOTAGE OM NEW YORK CY’S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH (1970)
- LILLI VCENZ, "GAY AND PROUD", CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATN DAY PARA, 1970
- GAY AND PROUD
- CODA: BEG A YOUNG GAY PERSON THE 1970S—REFLECTNS ON READG YOUNG, GAY AND PROUD
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
Narrated by Breck ArryA livg history of the homosexual rights movementThe voic of gay lears across AmeriActual sounds of the massive gay... * gay and proud 1970 *
”When John D’E heard a group of LGBTQ activists would be marchg the streets of New York June 1970, he told his boyiend and several of his gay iends. For centuri, homosexualy had been stigmatized, crimalized, and persecuted. “Comg out” me wh threats of vlence and social that changed the aftermath of the 1969 Stonewall uprisg—when a group of LGBTQ people rted rponse to a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy.
Now known as the first Pri paras, the gay liberatn march that took place New York and other U.
)Stonewall sparks a movementDpe the rampant homophobia of the early 20th century, the LGBTQ muny had ma self visible before. In 1965, for example, members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) began picketg each year on July 4 outsi Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.
JUNE 28, 1970: GAY AND PROUD
Gay and Proud (1970) st and crew creds, cludg actors, actrs, directors, wrers and more. * gay and proud 1970 *
Sudnly, the gay liberatn movement that had been perlatg boiled over.
‘GAY AND PROUD’ HISTORIL FILM PROVIS LOOK BACK AT EARLY PRI MARCH
In this chapter, Charman remembers and re-nstcts beg a young gay person who was the tend rear of Young, Gay and Proud (1978). The chapter suat the book the polil history of beg gay Melbourne the 1970s and pays homage to an olr... * gay and proud 1970 *
“The homosexual who wants to live a life of self-fulfillment our current society has all the rds stacked agast them, ” read one 1970 article about the upg march the Gay Liberatn Front News.
“Gay Liberatn is for the homosexual who ref to accept such a ndn.
Gay Liberatn is for the homosexual who stands up, and fights back. ”The first gay liberatn marchAround the untry, groups began to plan their own memorative march.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
1970 short documentary verg the first New York gay pri para celebratg one year after Stonewall. * gay and proud 1970 *
Around 150 marchers marched om Civic Center Plaza to Washgton Square shoutg slogans like “Gay power to gay people. ” The same day, a small group of San Francisns marched down Polk Street, then had a “gay-” piic that was broken up by equtrian and other New York groups had spent months planng the Manhattan event wh the help of anizers like Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist who had cut her anizg teeth durg the anti-Vietnam movement of the late 1960s. And monstrators shouted slogans like “Gay power, ” “Gay is okay, ” and “Gay, gay, all the way!
WATCH FOOTAGE OM NEW YORK CY’S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH (1970)
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I always say that gay liberatn was nceived at Stonewall 1969 and born at that first march. ” The marchers parad om Greenwich Village to Central Park, where they held a gay- gatherg wh speech and every muny weled s para. LAPD chief Edward Davis had a history of bashg LA’s gay muny, pared activists to bank robbers, and said the group would have to pay $1, 500 and post a $1.
LILLI VCENZ, "GAY AND PROUD", CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATN DAY PARA, 1970
Gay and Proud: Directed by Lilli M. Vcenz. 1970 short documentary verg the first New York gay pri para celebratg one year after Stonewall." data-id="ma * gay and proud 1970 *
5 ln surance bond, noted journalists Dudley Clenn and Adam Nagourney Out for Good, their history of the gay rights movement.
“It changed forever my ncept of what meant to be part of the gay muny, ” Rev.
And if we hadn't done that, nobody would remember the Stonewall today, " said Karla Jay, the first woman chair of the Gay Liberatn Front and a retired women's and genr studi profsor at Pace Universy.
GAY AND PROUD
In 1969, the NYPD ed billy clubs agast protters outsi The Stonewall In, a gay bar.
CODA: BEG A YOUNG GAY PERSON THE 1970S—REFLECTNS ON READG YOUNG, GAY AND PROUD
' " The followg year, June 28, 1970, people gathered jt outsi the Stonewall Inn for the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March. And they had signs on long woon sticks that said "Gay Pri" and "I am a lbian and I am betiful.
Gay activists Lilli Vcenz and Cliff Wt produced a documentary of that day, terviewg people anonymoly. The documentary Gay and Proud tells the story of the 1970 Gay Pri Para New York Cy. They chanted thgs like, "Say loud, gay is proud" and "Out of the closets and to the streets.