Transgenr people, drag queens and mori played outsized rol at early ton of the gay rights movement, but they haven’t received the benefs of the revolutn they sparked.
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GAY PRI
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The Queens Pri Para formed rponse to Rivera’s murr and, more directly, to the 1992 homophobic outcry over the cln of gay and lbian ntent the Children of the Rabow curriculum, which was signed to teach children tolerance of all of New York Cy’s diverse muni. As a rult, former NYC Council Fance Chair Daniel Dromm, who was then a public school teacher the borough’s Communy School District 24 (where the ntroversy was centered), me out as openly gay and cid to unter the ensug propaganda wh a fay-iendly celebratory para that would promote LGBT visibily and pri, and be based a neighborhood where many closeted gay people lived.
On November 22, 1992, the ial planng meetg was held Dromm’s Flhg apartment, and the formatn of the Queens Lbian and Gay Pri Commtee (QLGPC) followed soon after at a meetg of Queens Gays and Lbians Uned (Q-GLU).
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
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. * gay pride 2019 queens *
Co-chaired by Dromm and Cuban-born LGBT rights activist Marza Martez, QLGPC nvassed neighborhood gay bars for donatns and support.
Dromm later relled that some bar owners were ristant, “It was a very quiet lbian and gay muny — a large one but not a very visible one.
The acpanyg stage show featured drag queen and transgenr performers, who were also pivotal beforehand helpg to raise money and promote the para at the gay bars where they regularly entertaed. It’s crazy that this even needs to be said, but all LGBTQ people should boytt the Herage of Pri until they make sure none of the sponsors fund anti-gay legislatn. In 1993, the gural Queens Pri Para and Multicultural Ftival took place the historilly gay neighborhood of Jackson Heights and was the first such event to be anized a borough outsi the more gay-tolerant Manhattan.
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Co-anized by Daniel Dromm and Marza Martez, the para brought together a diverse group of LGBT people and alli om Queens and around the cy, and sought to promote pri, visibily, and acceptance followg years of homophobic hate crim and discrimatn. After the openg of LaGuardia Airport, gay travelers and flight attendants waed out layovers by visg a small entertament district on 37th Avenue.
Begng the 1970s, Lato immigrants arrived Jackson Heights large numbers and, gradually, gay bars the area tered predomantly to LGBT Latos. Until the activism spurred on by the gay-biased murr of Jul Rivera July 1990, however, the LGBT muny of the neighborhood — and Queens general — was largely visible.