LGBTQ History Month: The road to Ameri's first gay pri march

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

GAY PRI

Leonard Fk Photographs, The LGBT Communy Center Natnal History ArchiveMark SegalEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and marshal of the first Pri marchThe Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March was as revolutnary and chaotic as everythg we did that first year after the Stonewall rts. ” Today, my origal marshal’s badge is on display the JayEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians and -anizer of the first march New York and Los AngelIt was a near miracle that the first Christopher Street Wt Para Los Angel kicked off at all on June 28, 1970.

For one day, we were victor agast the Ed Davis of the world, and no one seemed “dismod” the FkelsteJohn KyperEarly member of Boston’s Gay Liberatn Front and an anizer of Boston’s first Pri ParaWe held our first march Boston 1971 — a year after New York. The march began at a baret bar lled Jacqu — which is still there and still gay — and ma three addnal stops along the route where we read a seri of mands. ActivistI grew up Jersey Cy close to the PATH tra and was lucky to fd my first boyiend my high school sophomore homeroom class.

Jam GreenProfsor of morn Lat Amerin history at Brown Universy and -anizer of Brazil’s first Gay Pri marchI lived São Plo durg the dictatorship of the late 1970s. Groups hosted the 17th ternatnal nference of ILGA (The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn), and the energy of the ternatnal legat who attend and the excement of hostg the gatherg only add to the drama of the untry’s first actual succsful para. The fear was Schal/Associated PrsChiké Frankie EdozienAuthor of “Liv of Great Men: Livg and Lovg as an Ain Gay Man”I me to the U.

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

[1] Pri was origally celebrated the Uned Stat on the fal Sunday June as "Gay Pri Day", but grew to enpass a month-long celebratn both the US and several other untri. Commemorate the Christopher Street Uprisgs of last summer which thoands of homosexuals went to the streets to monstrate agast centuri of abe [..

INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN

On June 28, 1970, on the first anniversary of the Stonewall rts, over seven hundred people marched on Greenwich Village's Christopher Street New York Cy, what is wily nsired the first Gay Pri march.

The Greenwich Village March to Central Park was anized by the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Commtee, though the ncept of the ial Pri march stemmed om the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO). [6] Shirtls men walked hand--hand and proudly participated PDA, picketers held signs wh their orientatns, and monstrators shouted slogans such as, "gay, gay, all the way". On June 27, 1970, a ty group of dividuals staged San Francis's first Pri celebratn: a march on Polk Street, followed on the 28th when a group of San Francisns had a piic they lled "gay-".

In the Sprg of 1973, Gay Freedom Week chairman Steve Gsburg assured people that the Gay Freedom Day anizg mtee were not sufferg om a rift. However, an anizatn lled the Gay Activist Alliance, head by Reverend Raymond Broshears, planned a petg celebratn the Civic Center.

HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

Countls hours were poured to meticulo planng that ught the attentn of policians, cludg future openly gay official Harvey Milk.

The 1976 para was met wh backlash by the Gay Lato Alliance, Gay Amerin Indians, Bay Black Cc, and Lbian Actn Organizatn who all voted a rolutn to clare the Para had lost sight of the meang of the Stonewall rts. Gay Freedom Day was ed to exprs samens and differenc through signs, banners, ntgents, speech, floats, sequs and outfs - or stripped down. Ultimately, the group agreed that their proposed cultural event would, "honor, and acknowledge all Indigeno peopl' plight, pecially those who are Two Spir and/or intified wh the ntemporary labels and terms of cisgenr and transgenr lbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer, asexual, and tersex.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

In 1997, Herage of Pri hosted the 16th annual ternatnal Associatn of Lbian and Gay Pri Coordators nferenc, which was the first to participatn om ternatnal Pri groups. One of the ma objectiv of Pk Dot is to raise awarens of LGBTQIA+ people the untry, their eedom to love and to support efforts to repeal Sectn 377a of the penal , which prohibs sex between gay men.

Gay Freedom Day San Francis was ed to exprs samens and differenc through signs, banners, ntgents, speech, floats, sequs and outfs - or stripped down. On June 23, 1972, anizatns petned the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to remove Homosexualy om the DSM-II, which labeled homosexualy as a mental illns.

The 1978 para cid wh a march to support tors agast the Briggs Iniative, which would ban lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals om workg California school.