The Chigo's para’s history n be traced to the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg New York Cy, a seri of protts rpondg to a police raid of Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. Chigo’s first Pri march was held on the one-year anniversary of those protts.
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CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
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Supreme Court lg that favored of a signer who don’t want to make weddg webs for gay upl and a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the untry this year, such as legislatn targetg drag performanc and genr-nfirmg health para-goer said was nice to see a posive si to thgs bee Pri is sential to show people ’s worth to live as their tt self. “A group of naked men participated the Seattle Gay Pri para – exposg themselv to small children along the para route, ” said nservative rad host Todd Starn a post. Maryann Batlle/Democrat And ChronicleRabow balloons, a huge Pri flag wh a sey face and a thatch beach umbrella were among the r of a para float honor of the late gay rights advote Dick Jackman.
Geia Prsley / Democrat And ChronicleA Rochter Pri Para 2023 float honored gay rights advote Dick Jackman, who was born Buffalo and lived Rochter and died 2016. Maryann Batlle/Democrat And ChroniclePayton Barn, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe at the 2023 Rochter Pri Para, is a gay Black man livg Rochter.
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 untry. (Brian Cassella/Chigo Tribune)The Chigo's para’s history n be traced to the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg New York Cy, a seri of protts rpondg to a police raid of Stonewall Inn, a gay bar.
Pictur om gay pri paras held across the US and around the world this past weekend. | * gay pride parade images *
Przker supporters reads “In Illois We Say Gay” at the 52nd annual Chigo Pri Para on June 25, 2023. Victims of discrimatn, who are fightg nvictns untri where is illegal to be gay, jo the para unr the slogan We are Not Crimals.
Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that is Pri Month for LGBT and queer people. Gee Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York Cy’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, documented scen om pri paras New York Cy om the late 1970s through the early ‘90s. The years saw Ana Bryant’s homophobic csa through the “Save Our Children” mpaign 1977, the electn and assassatn of Harvey Milk 1978, and the Whe Night rts the followg summer after the lenient sentencg of Milk’s murrer, Dan Whe.
Thoands took part gay pri events this weekend, many of which were held for the first time two years. * gay pride parade images *
And October 1979, the Natnal March on Washgton for Gay and Lbian Rights took place wh roughly 100, 000 participants. “It was, a sense, the year we buted on the larger public stage, ” says Jim Saslow, a profsor of art history at the Cy Universy of New York and an early gay activist.
“We were beg acceptable enough that a gay person uld have a signifint polil reer, but we also beme very aware of how much of a nerve that was touchg for nservative people. Saslow, who was also a iend of Dudley’s, marks this era as a shift the gay liberatn movement.
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Pri month is celebrated June to memorate the 1969 Stonewall uprisg Manhattan. Although the ronavis panmic curtailed ftivi, many revellers adapted to the new circumstanc * gay pride parade images *
But as the number of out gay people grew, says Saslow, the paras transned om timate gathergs of like-md people to events attend by a broar array of participants. “The muny started to attract more mastream folks who weren’t necsarily polilly radil or untercultural — they jt happened to be gay. “The guy a drs wh a beard, nng ont of the task force banner, ptur a lot of the atmosphere of the early gay liberatn muny, bee so much of me out of the hippie movement, ” says Saslow.
Members of the Natnal Gay Task Force march 1981.
Partners Charl Llie and Frz Lohman began to exhib art by gay artists their SoHo loft 1969, the same year the Stonewall uprisg took place. “There weren’t that many people documentg the gay world at that time, so Gee’s photographs have an enormo importance, ” says Saslow.