A look back at a major turng pot the stggle for gay rights
Contents:
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
- INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
- GAY PRI
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
* first gay pride parade ever *
State Liquor Authory did not give out licens to tablishments that served gay patrons.
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.
LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
” The ia of “Gay Power” was thrown around, but Schoonmaker said gay dividuals lacked real power to make change, but one thg they did have was pri. ’” The official chant for the march beme, “Say loud, gay is proud. ”The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.
At the time, homosexual acts remaed illegal every state except Illois, and bars and rtrants uld get shut down for havg gay employe or servg gay patrons.
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. Here, protters monstrate outsi the New York gay bar, Christopher's the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raid by police wh no warng.
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
They are pictured at a 1973 rally for gay rights New York P. Sylvia Rivera was a Lata-Amerin drag queen who beme one of the most radil gay and transgenr activists of the 1960s and '70s.
GAY PRI
As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari).