The First Gay Pri Was a Rt

Contents:

• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
• THE FIRST GAY PRI WAS A RT
• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

Along wh examg areas wh large gay muni such as New York, San Francis and Fire Island, the ntributors also nsir the thrivg gay populatns ci like Detro, Buffalo, Washgton, D. C., Birmgham and Flt, monstratg that gay muni are tly is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pneer Frankl KamenyFrankl Kameny (1925-2011), was one of the most signifint figur the gay rights movement.

THE FIRST GAY PRI WAS A RT

Begng 1958, he enuraged gay people to embrace homosexualy as moral and healthy, publicly nounced the feral ernment for excludg homosexuals om feral employment, openly fought the ary's ban agast gay men and women, bated psychiatrists who picted homosexualy as a mental disorr, intified tt s to advance civil liberti through the feral urts, acted as unsel to untls homosexuals sufferg state-sanctned discrimatn, and anized march for gay rights at the Whe Hoe and other public stutns. In Gay Is Good, Long llects Kameny's historilly rich letters, revealg some of the early stirrgs of today's polilly powerful LGBT Gay RevolutnThis chronicle of the morn stggle for gay, lbian, and transgenr rights draws on terviews wh policians, ary figur, legal activists and members of the LGBT muny to document the e's stggl sce the by MeIn Stand by Me, the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewr the history of gay life the 1970s, argug that the was about much more than sex and marchg the streets. Drawg on a vast trove of untapped rerds at LGBT muny centers Los Angel, New York, and Philalphia, Downs tells movg, revelatory stori of gay people who stood together--as iends, fellow believers, and lleagu--to create a sense of muny among people who felt alienated om mastream Amerin life.

An sential act of historil revery, Stand by Me sh a bright light on a triumphant moment, and will transform how we thk about gay life Ameri om the 1970s to the prent Are EverywhereThrough the lens of prott, power, and pri, We Are Everywhere is an sential and empowerg troductn to the history of the fight for queer liberatn. 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. 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.

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

After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay unintified group of young people celebrate outsi the board-up Stonewall Inn after the rts.

”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement. Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971. The march was 51 blocks long om wt of Sixth Avenue at Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, all the way to Sheep’s Meadow Central Park, where activists held a “Gay-.

”Spencer Grant/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 San Francis, activists marched down Polk Street and held a “Gay-” at Goln Gate Park on June 28th, too.