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Contents:
- INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
- GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS
- WHERE GAY PRI BEGAN 50 YEARS AGO
- THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- GAY PRI
- IS L.A. LOSG ITS OUTRAGEO PAST? THE BIRTH OF GAY URBANISM 1970S WT HOLLYWOOD
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
Mosw's top urt upholds a ban on gay pri march the Rsian pal for the next 100 years. * my life my rules gay parade 1970 *
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.
GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS
On 28 June 1969, events at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn sparked a multi-day rt that birthed the morn gay rights movement and the gural pri para 1970. * my life my rules gay parade 1970 *
“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.
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.
WHERE GAY PRI BEGAN 50 YEARS AGO
New York Cy was the se of the natn’s first gay pri para on June 28, 1970. A few other ci also held march that year. * my life my rules gay parade 1970 *
“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. “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.
THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri. * my life my rules gay parade 1970 *
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. “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.
” 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. On this day 50 years ago, LGBTQ activists and alli New York Cy marched om Greenwich Village to Central Park to memorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall event beme known as the first gay-pri march or the first gay-pri march 1970 to the US Supreme Court's lg protectg LGBTQ people agast workplace discrimatn earlier this month, here are 25 monumental moments the fight for equal rights for people of all genrs and sexual Bs Insir's homepage for more stori.
GAY PRI
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * my life my rules gay parade 1970 *
Joe Negrelli, a lifelong New Yorker, was at the Stonewall Inn the hot and humid June night 51 years ago when LGBTQ patrons rted agast a police raid, lnchg the morn gay rights movement.
"If you had told me s ago that the gay liberatn movement would get to this pot, where we'd go om beg arrted, evicted, fired om our jobs for beg gay to now the Supreme Court lg we n't be discrimated agast at work, I wouldn't believe you!
Read below for a visual tour of the setbacks and victori Ameri's LGBTQ muny has seen the years sce the very first march, and click here to read more about Negrelli's experienc as a gay man before the Stonewall rts.
IS L.A. LOSG ITS OUTRAGEO PAST? THE BIRTH OF GAY URBANISM 1970S WT HOLLYWOOD
June 28, 1970: On the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg, thoands of members of the LGBTQ movement marched through New York om Christopher Street to Central Park on what would bee Ameri's first gay-pri para. "We have to e out to the open and stop beg ashamed, or else people will go on treatg as eaks, " one member of the group the Gay Liberatn Front told the New York Tim. That year's Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights beme known as "The Great March" for s large turnout, which activists timated to be more than 500, 000 goal was to get more feral fundg to addrs the AIDS epimic, which at s height the mid-1980s killed 150, 000 per year, most of them LGBTQ people.
The policy directed that ary personnel "don't ask" if someone is gay, but also that members of the armed forc "don't tell" that they're gay theoretilly lifted a ban on gays servg the ary that had been stuted durg World War II, though realy, forced members of the armed forc to stay closeted. Leonard Fk Photographs, The LGBT Communy Center Natnal History ArchiveMark SegalEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and marshal of the first Pri marchThe Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March was as revolutnary and chaotic as everythg we did that first year after the Stonewall rts.