‘We say gay’: Florida’s largt Pri para draws hundreds of thoands

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• GAY PRI
• ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

GAY PRI

Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month.

The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement. LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi.

New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days. The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement. A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held.

‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns. Baker, a proment gay rights activist, gave a nod to the strip of the Amerin flag but drew spiratn om the rabow to reflect the many groups wh the gay muny. Formed 1974 as a sponsored program of The Center for Social Servic, we produced the first Lbian and Gay Para San Diego to celebrate the 1969 Stonewall Rebelln on New York’s Christopher Street.

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Fosterg pri, equaly, and rpect for all lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muni lolly, natnally, and globally. In acrdance wh our missn to foster pri, equaly, and rpect for all lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muni lolly, natnally, and globally, San Diego Pri is specifilly mted to racial jtice and equy, both externally through our programmg and munitns, and ternally through our anizatnal culture and operatns. Jt three years later, the Para weled 2, 000 atten, and Seattle Mayor W Ulman clared the first “Gay Pri Week.

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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). 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.