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.
GAY PRI PHILALPHIA, 1972-2018
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.
AT PHILALPHIA'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH, PEOPLE WERE 'JEERG AT AND BOOG'
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.
PHILLY GAY PRI MONTH
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.