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• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH

MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA

Only after several high-profile ristance events — such as the Annual Remrs Philalphia, "Gay-Sip Ins, " and Stonewall Inn rts New York Cy — did the muny start to anize siarly to other Civil Rights Movement groups, strategilly and tentnally (via History). The first Gay Pri March were anized on the anniversary of the Stonewall Inn rts, but there is still much history left to be unpacked. When gay dancg was still forbidn, the Mafia took over bars.

While homosexualy is mon among different animal speci and was often practiced ancient cultur — such as ancient Greece — through time, monotheistic relig fluenc all over the world have managed to exclu om society as somethg immoral and abnormal. While the gay culture thrived the 1920s, was all over soon.

The reprsn that succeed the short perd of eedom was btal, as police forc and policians like Joseph McCarthy tried to crack down on any homosexual activy the USA durg the 1950s and 1960s, makg gay bars (or even gay dancg) illegal. The Mafia seized the opportuny for profs hidn the pockets of gay people, takg over the New York gay bar scene that was evolvg Wt Manhattan. Regardls of s state, the bar beme a safe haven for the gay muny, who mostly wanted peace om vlence and the police.

IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

At some pot durg the reprsn, gay activists anized Sip-Ins. When the World's Fair event took place New York Cy 1964, the cy admistratn worked hard to "clean up" the cy, which led to several shutdowns of gay bars as they were seen as disorrly (per History).

Gay activists fought back, takg spiratn om the Civil Rights Movement and their peaceful s- protts — not engagg any kd of vlence, activists vised racially segregated spac and mand equal service for everyone.

Craig Rodwell — the activist who anized Annual Remrs — Randy Wicker, and Dick Lesch, head of the New York Mattache Society, entered the premis, sually revealed they were gay, and orred a drk. Bars should not discrimate on sexualy, clared the State Liquor Authory, and the bar scene did warm up toward gay people — at least a b. Today, Juli still exists, claimg to be one of the olst gay bars New York.

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The LGBTQ+ muny equently anized events that would brg attentn to the discrimatn they experienced, although the ial acts were much smaller than today's Gay Pri March. Acrdg to Philalphia Encyclopaedia, the prott outsi Philalphia Inpennce Hall on July 4, 1965, is documented as one of the first anized monstratns support of gay rights the USA (but not the first, as there was one siar event two months prr Washgton). Thirty-ne dividuals gathered at the prott anized by Frank Kameny, Barbara Gtgs and the East Coast Homophile Organizatn, drsed full bs attire — provg they n be, jt as everyone else, employable and "normal.

But Craig Rodwell, one of the anizers, disagreed when Kameny mand that a lbian uple should stop holdg hands — a much younger Rodwell got angry, llg Kameny an Auntie Tom and enuragg some other protters to hold hands, per the podst "Makg Gay History. The Stonewall rts beme the turng pot for gay activism, as the muny started to anize, spreadg rmatn about the attack and discsg possible optns to addrs the issue of vlence and reprsn.

After the Stonewall rts, several gay activist groups were anized on the blueprt of the Black Panther Party, and there was even some mutual support between the two groups.