Rare Photos Show What Gay Pri Looked Like the 1970s | Time

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• CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
• 900+ GAY PRI CLIP ART | ROYALTY FREE
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS

CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS

Gabriel Anrson march wh Suts for Equaly durg the 45th annual San Francis Gay Pri para Sunday, June 28, 2015, San Francis. A woman wearg a stume walks away om Turkish rt police durg the Gay Pri para on June 28, 2015 the Istiklal street near the Taksim square Istanbul. Spencer Grant via Getty ImagView of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian Pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, 1970.

(Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Imag)Harold Adler/Unrwood Archiv via Getty ImagA participant at a gay Pri gatherg Goln Gate Park, San Francis, California, cir Imag via Getty ImagA group, led by several people rryg an 'It's Time! Natnal Gay Task Force' banner, march up Sixth Avenue durg the annual Gay Pri para New York Cy, June 29, 1975. Allan Tannenbm via Getty ImagCoupl embrace and kiss Central Park after a gay Pri para, New York, New York, June 26, Alpert via Getty ImagA gay rights protter drag wh a banner clarg 'Not Every Boy Dreans Of Beg A Mare' durg a gay rights march up Fifth Avenue to Central Park, New York Archive via Getty ImagA group of men ri a tck at the tersectn of 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue durg the annual gay Pri para New York Cy, cir Prs via Getty ImagGay and lbian Pri para New York Cy, cir 1980.

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Photofn via Getty ImagA lbian and gay Pri London, Globe via Getty ImagGay Pri para march down Charl Street Boston on June 20, 1981.

Barbara Alper via Getty ImagGay Fathers take part a gay Pri para on the rner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue S New York Cy, June 1982.

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Barbara Alper via Getty ImagA group of men relax on the street durg the gay Pri para New York Cy, June 1982. Barbara Alper via Getty ImagMen and women rry signs durg the gay Pri para New York Cy, June 1984. Barbara Alper via Getty ImagMembers of the People Wh AIDS movement rry a banner durg the gay Pri para New York Cy, June Reste via Getty ImagNear the tersectn of North Broadway and Wt Barry Avenue, participants march behd a banner that reads 'G.

C., Gay & Lbian Physicians of Chigo' durg the annual Chigo gay and lbian Pri day para, Chigo, Illois, June 28, Sohm/Visns of Ameri via Getty ImagGay and lbian Pri para, Hollywood, California, McPartland via Getty ImagTwo women wearg 'Wife' signs around their necks, se for the mera, at the 1989 gay Pri para Greenwich Village, Manhattan, memoratg the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, June 25, 1989: #TheFutureIsQueer is HuffPost’s monthlong celebratn of queerns, not jt as an inty but as actn the world.

Began an antigay mpaign attributed to a puranil effort to clean up the cy's streets advance of the 1964 World's Fair. The mpaign closed gay bars by systematilly revokg liquor licens and simultaneoly targeted gay men through entrapment.

The mpaign was brought to an end after Mayor Ldsay entered office 1966 (partly due to lobbyg om Dick Lesch and Mattache) queens (g the language of the era) were the equent targets of the NYPD's Public Morals Sectn, which enforced all laws ncerng vice and gamblg, which also clud homosexualy.

Found as Parents of Gays (you n see the name on one of the signs this photo), the anizatn was started by three cisgenr upl wh queer children: Jeanne and Jul Manford, Amy and Dick Ashworth, and Bob and Elae Benov.