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- PAST HOSTILY FAS AWAY AS GAYS SHOW PRI LONG BEACH PARA
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- LONG BEACH GAYBORHOODS: LOVG LGBTQ LIFE THIS COASTAL COMMUNY
PAST HOSTILY FAS AWAY AS GAYS SHOW PRI LONG BEACH PARA
The sixth annual Lbian and Gay Pri Para and Ftival went off whout a hch last weekend. * long beach lesbian & gay pride *
Vis Gay Long Beach. “The bars, shops, and spac Alamos Beach have long been a refuge for gay people across our regn.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
In the 1960s and early ’70s, beg gay was still nsired by many a mental illns, and even the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn didn’t remove om the list of mental disorrs until 1973. Club Rippl, which spent nearly 50 years on Ocean Boulevard but has sce closed after s owners retired, was, like other Long Beach gay bars, among the only safe plac those who were LGBTQ uld hang out.
Garcia, the cy’s first openly gay mayor, tied the moment to a broar fight for social jtice. And April, Long Beach hosted a biannual LGBTQ nference that featured about 600 legat om around the world talkg about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex human rights their untri. LONG BEACH — The sixth annual Lbian and Gay Pri Para and Ftival went off whout a hch last was the ual assortment of participants rangg om flamboyant drag queens to sober-lookg activists rryg signs advotg homosexual rights and the rights of AIDS patients.
LONG BEACH GAYBORHOODS: LOVG LGBTQ LIFE THIS COASTAL COMMUNY
”The Long Beach para and ftival was the first of a seri of events schled throughout the untry to memorate the 20th anniversary of the police raid on Stonewall, a gay bar New York.
The June 28, 1969 raid spurred three days of rtg and is generally nsired the begng of the morn homosexual rights a lol level, anizers say, the 1989 Long Beach Lbian and Gay Pri Para and Ftival provid a major ntrast to s own begngs, which speaks volum about how much this cy has 500 people led the streets to see that first para 1984, Doyle said. Three of the four members perceived then as anti-gay have been replaced by members believed to be more supportive of homosexual issu. The fourth, Warren Harwood, says he is not anti-homosexual, and that he got a bad rap back then.