Crowd gatherg to march the Los Angel Christopher Street Wt pri para. June 28, 1970. On June 28, 1970, Hollywood hosted the natn’s first legally permted LGBT Para, helpg spark gay pri and the right for equaly California. Tired of prejudice and bigotry, homosexuals fought back agast illegal vlence by police East…
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- 50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS
- #TBT: WHAT GAY PRI LOOKED LIKE 1970
50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS
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#TBT: WHAT GAY PRI LOOKED LIKE 1970
The L.A. Pri Para and Ftival Wt Hollywood is a fixture of Los Angel life, but 50 years ago, was at the center of a heated battle between the thori and the LGBT muny’s wish to be publicly gay. * gay pride hollywood 2014 *
“We’re here to undo the damage that the relig right has done to J when they portray him as homophobic, ” she said. “I’m om eastern Montana, and when I me to Los Angel, I had a lot of ternalized homophobia.
Part of the reason I moved was bee I knew I was gay.