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WEHO PRI FTIVI KICK OFF TODAY, ONE OF SEVERAL GAY PRI ACTIVI PLANNED L.A. AREA THIS MONTH
LA Pri, one of the natn’s olst and largt LGBTQ pri celebratns, is leavg Wt Hollywood after more than four s the inic gay-iendly a letter to the Wt Hollywood Cy Council on Tuday, Christopher Street Wt, the nonprof that produc LA Pri, says the annual para and ftival will be moved om the cy 2021. ”“Wh s high ncentratn of LGBTQ rints and bs — more than 40% of rints Wt Hollywood intify as LGBTQ and three of the five members of the Wt Hollywood Cy Council are openly gay — the Cy of Wt Hollywood remas the heart of the regn’s LGBTQ muny, ” the cy’s statement reads.
Edward Williams, 24, wav flags durg the Annual Wt Hollywood Gay Pri Para 2009.
1970The first LA Pri ParaThe first para took place Hollywood — at a time when gay sex was actually illegal California. It was anized to memorate the 1969 Stonewall rts, an uprisg triggered by a police raid of a gay bar New York LGBTQ muny L. Officers beat gay patrons and arrted 14 for same-sex kissg — which was illegal durg the time — at the Black Cat on New Year’s Day 1967.