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Fosterg pri, equaly, and rpect for all lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muni lolly, natnally, and globally. Formed 1974 as a sponsored program of The Center for Social Servic, we produced the first Lbian and Gay Para San Diego to celebrate the 1969 Stonewall Rebelln on New York’s Christopher Street. * san diego gay pride 2014 *
The e-long para is San Diego’s largt civic event, attractg thoands of cheerg silers and upwards of 150 lorful floats and ntgents that will clu members of the Armed Forc, policians, civic anizatns and an array of gay-owned and gay-iendly bs unique to San Diego. Other ftival highlights clu: “My Big Gay Weddg Expo” prented by leadg weddg-dtry experts; a youth zone; a children’s garn; a “bear untry” saloon; a we grotto and more. “I’m old enough to have been at the onset of all this, ” said the 70-year-old, who marched the send New York pri para 1971, held jt two years after police raid Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village — an event nsired by many as the begng of the gay-rights movement.
Supreme Court orred the feral ernment to regnize state-sanctned gay marriag. To date, gays and lbians n legally marry 19 stat, cludg California, and the District of Abby Callejas of Chula Vista, Pri weekend — themed “Reflectns of Pri” — is about one thg: “celebratg our eedom.
Y, there have been chang, but when the time when beg gay is no longer an issue, that’s the day we n revel . And preparatn for Pri, the cy’s Imperial Court hel the Mr., Miss, Ms., Transgenr & Youth Gay Pri Pageant this past Sunday. San Diego was home to same-sex upl as far back as the 19th century, but wasn’t until around World War II that gays and lbians started to e out of the shadows and fd plac to ll home.