Wele, 2019. A special year. Fifty years ago, June 1969, patrons of The Stonewall Inn New York grew tired of yet another raid by the police. Gay, lbians, bisexuals and mostly: transgenrs, transvt and dragqueens fought back. Those were the Stonewall Rts. In 1970, the very first gay pri march memorated the rts.…
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Often creded as the begng of the morn-day gay rights movement, the rts outsi the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, New York on June 28th, 1969 igned a flame for a sire by queer people to be treated equal. They soon thereafter had the first pri para, and th, gay pri began.
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Back the 1970s, Gallup found Amerins were evenly spl on whether homosexualy should be legal the first place. That first march, back when the events were known as Gay Pri March, took place New York Cy 1970 memoratn of the Stonewall Rts.
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Through the 1960s, was fairly mon for police to raid gay- and trans-iendly bars. “Police btaly (particularly NYPD raids of gay bars, nightclubs, and bathho) had been documented New York Cy sce the begng of the century, ” Kev Nadal, executive director at the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi, prevly wrote an email. “Before Stonewall, gay lears had primarily promoted silent vigils and pole pickets, such as the ‘Annual Remr’ Philalphia, ” Sargeant wrote.
“Sce 1965, a small, pole group of gays and lbians had been picketg outsi Liberty Hall. The Christopher Street Liberatn Day Umbrella Commtee had to negotiate wh a dozen small LGBTQ anizatns to give everyone a seat at the table, and the mtee had to leverage the mailg list Sargeant and Rodwell had built up after they opened one of the natn’s first gay bookstor. As Kameny later scribed, “By the time of Stonewall, we had 50 to 60 gay groups the untry.
At first, LGBTQ Pri was typilly celebrated on the last Sunday of June as Gay Pri Day or Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day. There’s good reason for the posive outlook: While Amerins were divid on the legaly of homosexualy the 1970s, a solid majory now support same-sex marriag, and marriage equaly is legal across the US followg a 2015 Supreme Court cisn.