Held every year the month of June, the LGBT Pri Para and Ftival begs the heart of the Gayborhood at 13th and Loct startg at 11 am and proceeds through Center Cy and Philalphia’s historic district. The para ends at The Great Plaza at Penn's Landg where the ftival begs.
Contents:
- 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
- GAY PRI PHILALPHIA, 1972-2018
- AT PHILALPHIA'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH, PEOPLE WERE 'JEERG AT AND BOOG'
- PHILLY GAY PRI MONTH
1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
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1920s and 30s: Gay bars surface. Tavern on Camac is one of the olst gay bars Philalphia, if not the olst. Was a Prohibn-era speakeasy and “gentleman’s club” lled Maxe’s, where lol gay men, soldiers, and sailors would nverge.
A lot of socializg among the cy’s queer rints durg the ’40s and ’50s happened at hoe parti anized by Quaker-affiliated groups, acrdg to thor Marc Ste, who vered the era his book “Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov: Lbian and Gay Philalphia. 1950s: Gayborhood = Rtenhoe Square.
Durg the middle of the century Rtenhoe Square was the cy’s gay moment. “Saturday night is the gayt night of the week, ” read a story on the Rtenhoe queer scene Greater Philalphia Magaze. Unr Mayor Frank Rizzo, the cy put up signage around the Square to disurage gay people om cisg.
GAY PRI PHILALPHIA, 1972-2018
In 1962, the Jan Society was found Philalphia, makg one of the first rerd and publicly known “homophile” anizatns the cy. Dewey’s, a malted k and ice cream vendg cha, had two stor that remaed on the Philly gaydar.
Dewey’s Rtenhoe lotn, on the other hand, would ny service, discrimatg agast “homosexuals, ” “mascule women, ” “feme men” and “persons wearg non-nformist clothg.
In 1968, then-Police Commissner Frank Rizzo orred raids on gay bars (and on anybody he emed “unsirable”), leadg many to be verbally and physilly abed by officers.
AT PHILALPHIA'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH, PEOPLE WERE 'JEERG AT AND BOOG'
The first gay pri monstratn Philalphia took place Jun.
The neighborhood that would eventually be monikered “the Gayborhood” by Cy Paper’s David Warner flourished immensely. The first and olst LGBTQ bookstore the Uned Stat, Gvanni’s Room, would open a year after the events at the Gay Pri Celebratn.
Enomic growth, betifitn of the area and a cle the crime-rate were propelled by Philalphia’s first LGBT muny center openg 1976 (William Way) and the tablishment of s first publicly-distributed newspaper (Philalphia Gay News), s first gay bs group openg 1977 (Communy Alliance of Philalphia) and s first LGBT health and wellbeg center 1979 (the Mazzoni Center). To discs the creepg rise of “Kaposi’s Sara and Opportunistic Infectns” afflictg gay men, a disease that would later be termed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
PHILLY GAY PRI MONTH
LGBTQ movements, spac, anizatns and efforts the cy, up until then, had maly been domated by and tered to the needs of whe homosexual men. (The Gayborhood mural memoratg Casarez was whewashed by velopers last year. Over the next few years, cints of racism and discrimatn surfaced at several Gayborhood bars.
In 1972, however, several Philalphia polil-activist anizatns cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, the Homophile Actn League, Radilbians and groups om Penn State and Temple Universy me together to produce their own event.