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HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

Though the first Gay Pri Liberatn March took place Manhattan 1970 to memorate the one-year anniversary of Stonewall, took 30 years for Pri Month to bee official, a 1999 proclamatn om former Print Bill Clton. StonewallIn June of 1969, a seri of rts over police actn at The Stonewall Inn, a small, dank, mob-n gay bar Greenwich Village, New York changed the longtime landspe of homosexuals society, lerally overnight. The name "Stonewall" has self bee almost synonymo wh the stggle for gay rights and, yet, there has been relatively ltle hard rmatn generally available about the rts themselv.

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

"Stonewall UprisgFeaturg archival footage and terviews wh those who took part, om drag queens and street htlers to police tectiv, journalists, and a former mayor of New York Cy, this program reviss a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout the Uned Stat, and homosexualy self was nsired a mental illns. On June 28, 1969, when police raid the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-n gay bar Greenwich Village, gay men and women did somethg they had not done before: they fought back.

THE FIRST GAY PRI WAS A RT

As the streets of New York epted to vlent protts and street monstratns, the llective anger announced that the gay rights movement had Rememberg Stonewall, We Need To Listen to Those Who Were ThereCrysanthemum Tran reflects on the popular narrative of how the Stonewall uprisg began and the var stori told by those who were there. Milton the Amerin Gay Rights MovementPBS provis a timele of the Gay rights movement Ameri om 1924 to the Obergefell cisn StonewallBefore Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lbian Rights Historil Context illumat the liv of the urageo dividuals volved the early stggle for gay and lbian civil rights the Uned Stat. Creatg a Place for OurselvCreatg a Place For Ourselv is a groundbreakg llectn of says that exam gay life the Uned Stat before Stonewall and the gay liberatn movement.

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

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