Gay Irish Lear and Boyiend lead NY St. Patrick’s Day Para

Contents:

• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• GAY IRISH LEAR AND BOYIEND LEAD NY ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARA
• GAY PARADE LEADER QUESTIONED
• 13 BIGGT GAY PRI PARAS THE WORLD
• RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'

HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody and Lda Rhos proposed a rolutn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia that a march be held New York Cy to memorate the one-year anniversary of the raid. Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them.

As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari).

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay unintified group of young people celebrate outsi the board-up Stonewall Inn after the rts. ”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.

They are pictured here marchg Tim Square,, Sylvia Ray Rivera (ont) and Arthur Bell are seen at a gay liberatn monstratn, New York Universy, 1970 Marsha P. Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971. The march was 51 blocks long om wt of Sixth Avenue at Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, all the way to Sheep’s Meadow Central Park, where activists held a “Gay-.

GAY IRISH LEAR AND BOYIEND LEAD NY ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARA

”Spencer Grant/Getty ImagView of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of San Francis, activists marched down Polk Street and held a “Gay-” at Goln Gate Park on June 28th, too. " Activists say the Facebook posts echoed a long history of Philly Pri Prents beg too zy wh police, and too centered on the whe, cisgenr gay male experience.

Then, 2016, Philly Pri Prents offered the tle of para grand marshal to a group of LGBTQ police officers, lled the Gay Officer Actn League of Greater Philalphia. 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. 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.

GAY PARADE LEADER QUESTIONED

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. Origally lled The Lbian and Gay Big Apple Corps, the band was found by two gay micians, Nancy Corporon and Bob Wolff, 1979, 10 years after the Stonewall rts that marked a r turng pot the fight for LGBTQ rights.

- Hundreds of Kosovo people marched along the ma street durg a Gay para mandg "eedom" and "equal rights" the patriarchal and Mlim majory untry wh ltle tolerant views on sexualy. This is distct om the 1966 ‘Sip-In’, when a group of gay men, led by Lesch, refed to leave the fellow Greenwich Village (now) gay bar Juli’ bee they were nied a drk. This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25.

13 BIGGT GAY PRI PARAS THE WORLD

The anizatn said March that no longer wanted policians and polil lears to downtown Charlottetown para to celebrate gay muny set for July 29The streets of downtown Charlottetown were full of supporters hoistg and wearg rabow lours durg P. As they enjoyed the floats and affirmatns of support for LGBTQ+ persons, they also ponred polil headwds facg gay and trans Amerins portns of the the rner of Bnswick Street and Park Avenue Rochter, llege stunts cheered the Pri Para om their porch Saturday afternoon, watchg the last of the floats and marchers. ”-- Maryann BatllePri Para: A superhero for a dayPayton Barn, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe at the 2023 Rochter Pri Para, is a gay Black man livg Rochter.

But you have to be you, no matter what, Barn Barn held a cellphone toward the Pri Para and shared a livtream of the joyful marchg happeng down Park, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe, is a gay Black man livg Rochter. -- Maryann BatllePri Para float honors memory of advote Dick JackmanA Rochter Pri Para 2023 float honored gay rights advote Dick Jackman, who was born Buffalo and lived Rochter and died 2016.

Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state.

RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'

”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. Police Commissn’s unnstutnal requirement of a $1 ln surance policy by para anizers, rultg the first permted gay para the world, acrdg to strategist Nicholas Reer.

2018 marks the fourth year gay groups were admted to the para found honor of the patron sat of Ireland and the first an ternatnal "gay rights" symbol was given pri of place at the head of the march. An Air Force pta who led the Lbian and Gay Pri Para Washgton Sunday was qutned yterday by secury officers and told his discharge is beg held up, the officer and Air Force officials said. "They said sce I was not beg operative they would have to expand the vtigatn, but that if I operated they uld grant me immuny, " said Greeley, who had been terviewed by The Washgton Post at the para and mented on the prsur he and his fay have experienced acceptg his homosexualy.