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

Contents:

• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• FOTTEN GAY HISTORY – MARCH 8, 1970: THE NYC SNAKE P BAR RAID. 167 ARRTED, 1 CRILLY WOUND
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• FATAL STABBG OF GAY MAN AT GAS STATN BEG VTIGATED AS HATE CRIME

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

The first gay pri march took place New York Cy on June 28, 1970 — the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall holdg Christopher Street Liberatn Day banner, Davi / New York Public LibraryOct.

Each week’s feature will clu imag om the New York Public Library’s LGBTQ week, we look back at the untry’s first gay pri march — held New York Cy on June 28, 1970, the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts — and what led up to that historic Saturday morng on June 28, 1969, police staged a raid at the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-n gay bar New York Cy's Greenwich Village neighborhood.

The ps barrid themselv to the bar, and then the gay mob outsi the bar began to throw bricks and rocks toward the door and tried to break through the board up Stonewall Inn, September 1969. The sign the wdow reads: “WE HOMOSEXUALS PLEAD WITH OUR PEOPLE TO PLEASE HELP MAINTAIN PEACEFUL AND QUIET CONDUCT ON THE STREETS OF THE VILLAGE — MATTACHINE” Diana Davi / New York Public LibraryJt a few days after the Stonewall Rts, gay activist Frank Kameny load up a b wh fellow activists and head down to Philalphia for the fifth “annual remr” picket prott outsi Inpennce Hall.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Acrdg to historian and thor Lillian Farman, the picket protts were “staid” and reflected Kameny’s sire for gay tegratn to society and the workforce. Mart Luther Kg, Jr., and massive protts agast the Vietnam war, young gay activists mand faster and more radil change.

“I thk that was probably Frank’s first realizatn that this was a new orr, thgs were changg, ” Farman days after the "annual remr, " on July 6, 1969, the New York tabloid The Daily News ran a homophobic article about the Stonewall raid by Frank Lisky, tled “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. ”Activists Lda Rhos, Arlene Khner, and Ellen Davi / New York Public LibrarySoon after the 1969 "remr", four activists — Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Lda Rhos and Ellen Broidy — cid to attend a regnal “homophile” nference and “propose that the staid ‘annual remrs’ of homophile pickets at Inpennce Hall Philalphia, held every July 4 for the prev five years, be replaced by a march New York Cy, " Farman men were members of the Homophile Youth Movement Neighborhoods, and the women members of Lavenr Menace. The march stretched 15 blocks — three quarters of a e — at s longt, The New York Tim march end Central Park's Sheep’s Meadow, where the Tim wrote marchers "gathered to prott laws that make homosexual acts between nsentg adults illegal and social ndns that often make impossible for them to display affectn public, mata jobs or rent apartments.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

”Michael Brown, who is named by the Tim as a founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, told Tim reporter Lacey Fosburgh: “We have to e out to the open and stop beg ashamed, or else people will go on treatg as eaks. ”Around Sheep’s Meadow, protters shouted, “Say loud, gay is proud. ”At the end of the march, protters gathered Central Park's Sheep's Meadow for a gay "be-"Diana Davi / New York Public LibraryLater that same day, Los Angel held a “Christopher Street Wt” celebratn on Hollywood Boulevard that drew thoands.

FOTTEN GAY HISTORY – MARCH 8, 1970: THE NYC SNAKE P BAR RAID. 167 ARRTED, 1 CRILLY WOUND

Pl Hoton reported the Los Angel Tim on the “hour-long, e-long procsn” down Hollywood Boulevard: “Sunday eveng had many thgs — joyo monstrators for sexual rights and digny, some sual attire, others briefs, ‘queens’ drag, ‘fairi’ wh paper wgs, clowns, leather-jacketed motorcyclists, a lbian on horseback, a python, whe hki, Amerin flags, hilar and somber signs and chants, a float pictg a homosexual nailed to the cross. Let me also say that the straight prs always unrtimated the siz of the gay monstratns, but I n tell you was astonishg and huge.

“We're beg ant, and we won't be harassed and grad any more, ” Mart Robson, a member of the Gay Activist Alliance, told The New York Tim.

(Correctn: A prev versn of this story rrectly stated that Fred Sargeant and Craig Rodwell were members of the Gay Liberatn Front.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

NYPL has the archiv of pivotal anizatns, such as the Mattache Society of New York and the Gay Activists Alliance; the papers of pneerg activists like Barbara Gtgs; and vast holdgs LGBTQ pop culture. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy neighborhood of Greenwich Village, police raid a popular gay bar: the Stonewall Inn. Siar homophobic and transphobic persecutn by police had prevly sparked other uprisgs the U.

Wh gay and trans rights unr immediate threat, this year's Pri events are more than jt celebratns – they're tend as acts of uny by LGBTQ muny members and are the top statns to champn and celebrate Pri natnwi York Cy: June 25(Getty Imag)Every year New York Cy throws one of the biggt Pri celebratns the world. Its first Pri event was held 1976 after a urt lg allowed the gay muny to march through the cy. Provcetown boasts plenty of gay bars, beach and year-round Pri events to wele LGBTQ travelers.

FATAL STABBG OF GAY MAN AT GAS STATN BEG VTIGATED AS HATE CRIME

In 1978, attorney John Ward tablished the GLBTQ Legal Advot and Defenrs, formerly known as the Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD), Boston. And Miss Gay Urban Pri Pageant along wh Pch Black, "the annual All Black Affair. Its historic Mount Vernon neighborhood was nsired one the area's biggt gay havens before that sentiment expand to other neighborhoods too.

Found 1971 as the Gay Activists Alliance of Washgton, D.

– and later changg s name to the Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance – GLAA is one of the olst ntuoly active LGBTQ civil rights anizatns the U. Another historic tone for LGBTQ activism, the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, was held on D. Bryant was unr fire after lnchg a "Save Our Children" mpaign rponse to a gay rights ordance Da County, Florida, which granted LGBTQ people hog and employment first muny Pri event the Hampton Roads area was a potluck piic June 1986 held by the Mandam Society.