Des of pa and perseverance San Francis's gay muny fally led to vditn the Bay Area and across the natn. This is a timele of historil events.
Contents:
- PARADE 1972 FIRST GAY PRI PARA SAN FRANCIS
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
PARADE 1972 FIRST GAY PRI PARA SAN FRANCIS
The California Supreme Court l that gays have the right to assemble, leadg to a proliferatn of gay bars and eventually the formatn of social and polil groups San Francis’s gay muny. ” Public sentiment begs to shift toward qutng harassment of the gay muny.
This photo is of the sprawlg La Galleria ndomiums on the rner of Bh and Taylor streets on Thursday June 20, 2013, the se of the raid at the gay nightclub. Entertaer and drag queen Jose Sarria ns for San Francis supervisor, the first openly gay ndidate to n for public office the Uned Stat. Life Magaze lls San Francis the “Gay Capal of Ameri.
A group march down Polk Street to Cy Hall San Francis's first gay rights march. A “gay-”' tak place the followg day Goln Gate Park. Harvey Milk is sworn to the San Francis Board of Supervisors beg the first openly gay cy official California history.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
San Francis hosts the Gay Gam, an ternatnal sports and culture event. In a historic victory for gay rights, the U. Supreme Court l 5-4 that gays and lbians have the nstutnal right to marry their chosen partner.
On June 25, 1978, activists hoist a vibrant rabow flag the midst of the ftivi for San Francis’s Gay and Lbian Freedom Day para. Gilbert, a drag queen and clothg signer, met gay rights activist Harvey Milk, dubbed the “Mayor of Castro St. ” for his succsful anizg of San Francis’s gay muny, 1974.
“Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth, ” Baker later said.
EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
Known then as the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March — named after the street on which Stonewall is loted — the para began on Washgton Place between Sheridan Square and Sixth Avenue and moved up Sixth Avenue, endg wh a “Gay-In” Central ia that LGBTQ+ people would march through the streets of New York Cy, proudly clarg their existence, their pri and their love was tly revolutnary back then. It was ually “a small, pole group of gays and lbians [would picket] outsi Liberty Hall, " Sargeant scrib.
” The event was put on by a gay men's rights group lled the Mattache Society, which was one of the earlit LGBTQ+ rights groups the Uned Stat ( formed 1950). Acrdg to the History Channel, five months after Stonewall, Sargeant, Rodwell, and activists Ellen Brody and Lda Rhos attend the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia and proposed a rolutn: that an annual march be held on the last Sunday June New York Cy to memorate Stonewall. Many rried lorful pennants or signs readg "Gay Pri!
" Bce not, "Comg om activist backgrounds, anizers and marchers stuck wh what they knew, prentg themselv as proud gay people through their signs, chants, and displays of affectn. ” Over a dozen LGBTQ+ rights groups were volved the planng, cludg lbian femist group the Lavenr Menace, formed rponse to mastream femism's excln of lbians; Gay Liberatn Front, formed post-Stonewall; lbian civil rights anizatn Dghters of Bilis; trans rights anizatn Queens Liberatn Front; and var stunt groups. It's her efforts that helped gay activists lay the foundatn for weeklong celebratns of gay pri leadg up to the climactic Gay Pri Para.