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gay pride los angeles 2015

Eye on L.A. is takg a look back at the history of gay pri Los Angel.

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50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS

From protts and paras to the hom of early gay rights activists, the Southland has played a key role. * gay pride los angeles 2015 *

The unrtold story of that May 1959 uprisg was one of several gaps that prompted Lillian Farman and Stuart Timmons to wre their 2009 book, “Gay L. ” The Mattache Steps on Cove Avenue Silver Lake near the former home of early gay activist Harry Hay. (Rirdo DeAratanha / Los Angel Tim) “We disvered that, historilly, more lbian and gay stutns started Los Angel than anywhere else on the pla, and that L.

More than 400,000 people packed the streets of Wt Hollywood Sunday for the LA Pri Para, which celebrat the transgenr, lbian, gay and bisexual muni. * gay pride los angeles 2015 *

’s multifaceted, multiracial, and multicultural lbian and gay activism ntu to have tremendo impact worldwi, ” they, Los Angel’ LGBTQ history is beg prerved by anizatns such as the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari and the June L. For Brskele, matag queer history Los Angel is about makg sure the next generatns know that there were others before them and have a sense of the history of the gay rights movement.

The L.A. Pri Para and Ftival Wt Hollywood is a fixture of Los Angel life, but 50 years ago, was at the center of a heated battle between the thori and the LGBT muny’s wish to be publicly gay.  * gay pride los angeles 2015 *

The panmic has been particularly hard on gay bars, and several s-old favor — cludg Rage and Gold Coast — were forced to permanently close their doors. In May 1959, two LAPD officers entered the 24-hour fe popular wh the gay and transgenr muni and started askg for IDs, a mon form of police harassment.

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