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A police raid at the Black Cat Tavern led to protts outsi the gay bar that predated the Stonewall rts by more than two years. The event will be memorated Saturday.

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LOS ANGEL GAY PRI PARA MORPHS TO #RISTMARCH

The Babadook cemented his stat as an LGBTQ in by beg the unofficial mast of Los Angel' Gay Pri Para. * gay pride 2017 los angeles *

Edward Williams, 24, wav flags durg the Annual Wt Hollywood Gay Pri Para 2009. 1970The first LA Pri ParaThe first para took place Hollywood — at a time when gay sex was actually illegal California.

It was anized to memorate the 1969 Stonewall rts, an uprisg triggered by a police raid of a gay bar New York LGBTQ muny L. Officers beat gay patrons and arrted 14 for same-sex kissg — which was illegal durg the time — at the Black Cat on New Year’s Day 1967. That event sparked gay-rights protts.

Young men chant agast the Briggs proposn durg the Gay Pri Para held on Hollywood Boulevard. The mpaign, created by celebry photographer Adam Boka and his partner Jeff Parshley, rallied for marriage equaly and gay rights by g imag of people wearg duct tape over their mouths, symbolizg their voic beg “silenced.

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) (Harrison Hill / Los Angel Tim) 2016Pulse shootg creat a somber toneLast year’s para took place jt a few hours after a mass shootg at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., which 49 people were fatally shot. The 29-year-old gunman, Omar Mateen, had spoken the past of his hatred for gay typilly joyo LA Pri Para Wt Hollywood took on a somber tone Sunday the wake of the massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., that killed 49 people. Gay Pri Para, Los Angel, 1970.

Pri Para (origally Gay Pri Para) was held on June 28, 1970, Los Angel. Bob Humphri (founr, Uned Stat Missn), Morris Kight (founr, Gay Liberatn Front) and Rev. 's Gay Pri Para perm did not e easily.

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No cy had, until that time, ever experienced thoands of LGBTQ people marchg openly and LAPD Chief Edward Davis did not hate to remd anizers that homosexualy was still illegal California.

Perry reunted that Davis clared to them, “As far as I’m ncerned, grantg a perm to a group of homosexuals to para down Hollywood Boulevard would be the same as givg a perm to a group of thiev and robbers.

The Los Angel Police Commissn, for their part, claimg to fear vlent homophobic unter-reactns, imposed excsive perm requirements, such as fe that amounted to $1. ’s Gay Pri Para th beme the world’s first officially-permted para advotg for LGBTQ rights.

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