Gay Pri | History, Flag, & Facts | Branni

Contents:

• GAY PRI PARA
• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
• 13 BIGGT GAY PRI PARAS THE WORLD
• GAY PRI

GAY PRI PARA

On June 28, 1970, on the first anniversary of the Stonewall rts, over seven hundred people marched on Greenwich Village's Christopher Street New York Cy, what is wily nsired the first Gay Pri march.

HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

The Greenwich Village March to Central Park was anized by the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Commtee, though the ncept of the ial Pri march stemmed om the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO). On June 27, 1970, a ty group of dividuals staged San Francis's first Pri celebratn: a march on Polk Street, followed on the 28th when a group of San Francisns had a piic they lled "gay-". The 1976 para was met wh backlash by the Gay Lato Alliance, Gay Amerin Indians, Bay Black Cc, and Lbian Actn Organizatn who all voted a rolutn to clare the Para had lost sight of the meang of the Stonewall rts.

Ultimately, the group agreed that their proposed cultural event would, "honor, and acknowledge all Indigeno peopl' plight, pecially those who are Two Spir and/or intified wh the ntemporary labels and terms of cisgenr and transgenr lbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer, asexual, and tersex. One of the ma objectiv of Pk Dot is to raise awarens of LGBTQIA+ people the untry, their eedom to love and to support efforts to repeal Sectn 377a of the penal , which prohibs sex between gay men.

The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people.

INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN

Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni. As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival.

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13 BIGGT GAY PRI PARAS THE WORLD

A pri para (also known as pri march, pri event, or pri ftival) is an outdoor event celebratg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) social and self-acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pri. The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar which tered to an assortment of patrons, but which was popular wh the most margalized people the gay muny: transvt, transgenr people, effemate young men, htlers, and homels youth. On Saturday, June 27, 1970, Chigo Gay Liberatn anized a march om Washgton Square Park ("Bughoe Square") to the Water Tower at the tersectn of Michigan and Chigo avenu, which was the route origally planned, and then many of the participants spontaneoly marched on to the Civic Center (now Richard J.

In Los Angel, Morris Kight (Gay Liberatn Front LA founr), Reverend Troy Perry (Universal Fellowship of Metropolan Communy Church founr) and Reverend Bob Humphri (Uned Stat Missn founr) gathered to plan a memoratn. On Sunday, June 28, 1970, at around noon, New York gay activist groups held their own pri para, known as the Christopher Street Liberatn Day, to rell the events of Stonewall one year earlier. On November 2, 1969, Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Lda Rhos proposed the first gay pri para to be held New York Cy by way of a rolutn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) meetg the Annual Remr, orr to be more relevant, reach a greater number of people, and enpass the ias and ials of the larger stggle which we are engaged-that of our fundamental human rights-be moved both time and lotn.

GAY PRI

For ial fundg, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donatns om the natnal homophile anizatns and sponsors, while Sargeant soliced donatns via the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop ctomer mailg list and Nixon worked to ga fancial support om GLF his posn as treasurer for that anizatn. [opn] In Atlanta and New York Cy the march were lled Gay Liberatn March, and the day of celebratn was lled "Gay Liberatn Day"; Los Angel and San Francis they beme known as 'Gay Freedom March' and the day was lled "Gay Freedom Day".

The rooted iology behd the paras is a crique of space which has been produced to seem heteronormative and 'straight', and therefore any act appearg to be homosexual is nsired dissint by society. The march spread ternatnally, cludg to London where the first "gay pri rally" took place on 1 July 1972, the date chosen liberately to mark the third anniversary of the Stonewall rts. Though the realy was that the Stonewall rts themselv, as well as the immediate and the ongog polil anizg that occurred followg them, were events fully participated by lbian women, bisexual people, and transgenr people, as well as by gay men of all rac and backgrounds, historilly the events were first named Gay, the word at that time beg ed a more generic sense to ver the entire spectm of what is now varly lled the 'queer' or LGBT muny.

By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as many of the actual participants had grown olr, moved on to other issu, or died, this passage of time led to misunrstandgs as to who had actually participated the Stonewall rts, who had actually anized the subsequent monstratns, march and memorials, and who had been members of early activist anizatns such as Gay Liberatn Front and Gay Activists Alliance. The event was attend by about forty people belongg to var homophile groups, cludg on om France, Belgium, Great Bra's Gay Liberatn Front, and Italy's activist homosexual rights group Fuori! Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody and Lda Rhos proposed a rolutn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia that a march be held New York Cy to memorate the one-year anniversary of the raid.

Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them.

After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village.