Harvey Milk, a gay man elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977, gave a rog speech at the cy’s 1978 Gay Freedom Day celebratn. In his speech, Milk emphasized that LGBTQ rights are part of the Amerin tradn of eedom and equaly. Photograph By Daniel Niletta via Wikimedia Commons
Contents:
- GAY FREEDOM PARA (SAN FRANCIS, 1978)
- 1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
- 1977 AND 1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
- EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
- SPEECH OF SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK AT GAY FREEDOM DAY, JUNE 25, 1978.
GAY FREEDOM PARA (SAN FRANCIS, 1978)
Vio of the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para by Harold T. O'Neal. The footage appears to be of two paras, one dated 1977 and one dated 1978. Groups and... * san francisco gay freedom day parade 1978 *
Also featur terviews wh State Senator Milton Marks who reflects on the Briggs iative and creasg opposn to Gay rights and lawyer Carol Ruth Silver, who stat that: "People here are celebratg. CONTINGENTS/PARTICIPANTSGay VetsGay Amerin IndiansBay Area Coaln Agast the Briggs AmendmentSupervisor Harvey Milkgay teachersanti-Ana Bryant ntgent ("Ana Bryant: Emprs of the Bigots")tersectnal ntgents -- agast racism, for workers'/workg class rights"Separatn of Church om State"Women Uned to Defeat BriggsOlivia RerdsDeaf Gays of San FrancisSEIU/Department Store Employe Unn Lol 1100Gays for LSDL.
Groups and figur clu: Lbian rights, unns, Gay Disabili Rights, Stonewall Coaln, Gay Teachers, Misters for Human Rights, floats, Jane Doe Emprs, Ana Bryant, San Francis State Universy, Gay Health Workers and Universy of California San Francis (UCSF), Briggs Iniative, Stud, NOW, San Francis Gay Freedom Day Marchg Band and Twirlg Corps, and others.
1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
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CONTINGENTS/PARTICIPANTSPart 1 (1977)Lbians [illegible] HoeworkLbian Mothers' Rights/Support Jean JuillnWomen Agast Vlence and PornographyUnn Women's Alliance to Ga Equaly (WAGE)Internatnal Lbian SolidaryUned Santa Cz [illegible] Gay People[ntgent of gay and lbian people wh disabili]"Death Ameri"Stonewall CoalnGay People's Unn UC BerkeleyGay Lato Alliance (GALA)[People's food System/Third World Women/Stggle Agast Imperialism]"Sissi Arise as Faggot Effemists Emergg"Gay Liberatn through Socialist RevolutnTeachers ntgentMisters for Human RightsMen Agast Sexist VlenceGay ActnButterfly BrigaGay People's Unn [Stanford][murr of Robert Hillsborough]RenoPacific Telephone EmployeRamrodSacramento ntgents (KDAS, Communy Church)Council on Relign and the HomosexualJane Doe Emprs XII (Imperial Court)Yacht Clubanti-Ana Bryant ntgentSan Francis State Gay Amic UnnGay Amerin IndiansGay Health Workersanti-Briggs, pro-teachers ntgent"the Joy of Recyclg"untry and wtern bandSylvtermore anti-Bryant prottorsanother band Part 2 (1978)BACABI (Bay Area Coaln Agast the Briggs Amendment)Gay Teachers and School Workers[Berkeley Cizens' Actn]"Gays-Workers-Opprsed Peopl-- Une/Defeat all Attacks"C-3POPacific Telephone EmployeRadil WomenSan Francis State Gay Camp Communy"Word Is Out" (Film)the StudBay Area DignyBACABI and more anti-Briggs ntgents, cludg Californians Agast the Briggs Iniative, Northern California AllianceGay Vets[Alice B. )PT&T (Pacific Telegraph and Telephone) EmployeGay Health WorkersGays-Workers-Opprsed People -- Une: Fight All AttacksBerkeley Socialist Workers 1978 Campaignthe Gay Rights LobbySan Francis Gay Freedom Day marchg Band and Twirlg CorpsState of OregonFilmmakers Advotg Hont Gay Imag FilmGay People's Unn, UC BerkeleyCal Poly GSUEMCPLilhthe Stud.
Part of the crowd at the Civic Center celebratn at the end of the 1977 San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para; photograph by Crawford Barton, Crawford Barton Papers (1993-11), GLBT Historil Society. Inially referred to as the Gay Liberatn March, then as Christopher Street Wt, then as Gay Freedom Day, the celebratn ployed both ivoly and prott hop of iatg a cultural shift how society viewed LGBTQ people. Organizers distributed photopi of the typed, llaged and hand-drawn documents seen here to gui marchers and sponsors of a 1975 lumn the Bay Area Reporter, muny lear and mera-store owner Harvey Milk (1930–1978) poted to two challeng for Gay Freedom Day anizers: promotg the para through the media and obtag municipal fundg.
1977 AND 1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
Des of pa and perseverance San Francis's gay muny fally led to vditn the Bay Area and across the natn. This is a timele of historil events. * san francisco gay freedom day parade 1978 *
By the time Milk beme California’s first openly gay elected official as a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1978, mastream media were creasgly providg advance verage of the event—and that same year, the Para Commtee obtaed s first grant om the cy. One of the origal eight-lor flags flyg at Uned Natns Plaza San Francis durg Gay Freedom Day, 1978; photograph by Crawford Barton, Crawford Barton Papers (1993-11), GLBT Historil Society.
Now an ternatnal symbol of LGBTQ muny, the flag buted wh two exampl flown on the monumental flagpol at Uned Natns Plaza on Gay Freedom Day, June 25, Para 1978; footage by Crawford Barton, Crawford Barton Papers, GLBT Historil Society. Behd the ftivi, another aspect of the Gay Freedom Day Para returned year after year throughout the 1970s: arguments about goals, disagreements on tactics and fights over cln and reprentatn. The headle that starts on the right page ntu on subsequent pag to give a full 1928 quote by early German homosexual-emancipatn lear Kurt Hiller: "The liberatn of homosexuals n only be the work of homosexuals themselv.
” 1972 Emms Hoe, a “gay swchboard” and service anizatn, sued the Christopher Street Wt Para Commtee for $200 small claims urt, claimg that the proceeds om the year’s event had not been distributed to the cy’s gay social-service anizatns as promised by the mtee.
EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
1978 San Francis Gay Day Para photograph: Harvey Milk addrsg crowd om stage - shot 8 * san francisco gay freedom day parade 1978 *
Sprg 1973 Gay Freedom Week chair Steve Gsburg quashed mors about an irreparable rift the Gay Freedom Day anizg mtee, whose members asserted that the San Francis para would be “the largt and only one the Wt. 1976 A aln of anizatns cludg the Gay Lato Alliance, Gay Amerin Indians, Bay Black Cc and Lbian Actn Organizatn voted a rolutn clarg that the Gay Freedom Day Para had lost sight of the te meang of the 1969 Stonewall rts.
The Commtee was workg agast the Briggs Iniative, a state ballot measure put to the voters November that would have banned gays and lbians and their supporters om workg California public schools. The satiril flyer on the right oppos the fictnal “Larry Rice” of “Gays Opposg Discrimatn” (GOD) who urg para-goers to wear gray bs sus so that gay people will “appear as socially acceptable members of the bourgeoisie.
September 1980Disgntled members of the LGBTQ muny mpaigned agast the move of the Pri “rporate board” to elimate general membership and muny volvement direct cisn-makg about the Gay Freedom Day and Para. What remas remarkable is how, even as endured perennial dangers of ternal divisn and external attack, Gay Freedom Day ntued to grow to the huge event that we know as San Francis Pri today.
SPEECH OF SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR HARVEY MILK AT GAY FREEDOM DAY, JUNE 25, 1978.
1976 Gay Freedom Day proclamatn; Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart Papers (1993-13), GLBT Historil 1976, Mayor Gee Mosne issued a proclamatn for Gay Freedom Day for the first time, signalg the growg importance of the celebratn as a civic event.
Dpe the challeng, Gay Freedom Day sought to gather everyone to llective inty, visibily, pri and polil empowerment, assertg that—as the 1976 celebratn’s theme would attt—“Our Diversy Is Our Strength. Willie Brown urged everyone to register to vote, so they uld oppose a statewi iative sponsored by Fullerton Republin Assemblyman John Briggs that would perm public school districts to fire homosexuals. A lot of progrs has been ma toward this goal the last 50 years, cludg a Supreme Court lg jt two weeks ago that gay employe were protected om job discrimatn unr the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but the fight is far om over.