WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA–The mastream acceptance of gays and lbians, a hard-won civil-rights victory gaed through s of stggle agast prejudice and discrimatn, was set back at least 50 years Saturday the wake of the annual Los Angel Gay Pri Para.
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- GAY PRI
- GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
- LA MARCHE S FIERTéS 2023 (EX GAY PRI): HERE'S THE ROUTE OF THE LGBTQI+ PARA PARIS
GAY PRI
The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri. * old gay pride parade *
Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that is Pri Month for LGBT and queer people.
Gee Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York Cy’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, documented scen om pri paras New York Cy om the late 1970s through the early ‘90s. The years saw Ana Bryant’s homophobic csa through the “Save Our Children” mpaign 1977, the electn and assassatn of Harvey Milk 1978, and the Whe Night rts the followg summer after the lenient sentencg of Milk’s murrer, Dan Whe. “It was, a sense, the year we buted on the larger public stage, ” says Jim Saslow, a profsor of art history at the Cy Universy of New York and an early gay activist.
“We were beg acceptable enough that a gay person uld have a signifint polil reer, but we also beme very aware of how much of a nerve that was touchg for nservative people. But as the number of out gay people grew, says Saslow, the paras transned om timate gathergs of like-md people to events attend by a broar array of participants. “The guy a drs wh a beard, nng ont of the task force banner, ptur a lot of the atmosphere of the early gay liberatn muny, bee so much of me out of the hippie movement, ” says Saslow.
GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * old gay pride parade *
On June 28, 1969, members of New York Cy's gay muny rose up agast opprsn and state-sponsored vlence, fightg back an event now known as the Stonewall Rts or Stonewall a few years, anized, annual paras of pri and remembrance would emerge to mark the event.
Pri paras have always tackled multiple goals, ongog anti-gay bigotry among, gay activists prott discrimatn at the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day June 1971 New York Cy.
Tensns wh police were a major factor the origal Stonewall, the LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day reach a police le 1971. Meanwhile, gay activists were anizg San Francis and timated 3, 000 people marched down Polk Street durg "Christopher Street Wt, " the first anized San Francis Gay Para, on June 25, 1972. Here, parents march support of LGBTQ rights June 1974 Greenwich Village, New York the right is Amerin lawyer Dick Ashworth, marchg wh a sign that reads "I'm proud of my gay son.
LA MARCHE S FIERTéS 2023 (EX GAY PRI): HERE'S THE ROUTE OF THE LGBTQI+ PARA PARIS
* old gay pride parade *
Women were a key part of pri events om the very, members of the Women's Motorcycle Contgent get ready to ri at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 26, 1977. In 1972, amid a large migratn of gay men, a buddg lear named Harvey Milk moved om New York Cy to the Castro District of San Francis, where he would later bee the first openly gay elected official , Harvey Milk appears at a Gay Pri Para 1978. Pri paras often allow diverse groups to e forward and seek, a group of lbian and gay Catholic activists hold a banner at the annual Pri Para New York Cy June 1980.
Two years after the first news story about AIDS appeared a New York publitn, gay activists are seen takg their fight agast the disease to the 's a view of the 1983 para New York Cy. As seen om above, marchers, cludg a bagpipe player, display a Police Gay Officers Actn League banner on Christopher event: The annual New York Cy Pri March New York on June 30, 1985. A young girl intified only as Jennifer ris ont of her mother among the Dyk on Bik group, tablished event: The Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para, San Francis, June 15, 1985.