The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri.
Contents:
- GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
- GAY PRI
- MISS GAY MICHIGAN AMERI PAGEANT PROMIS GRAND GLAM
- GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST 50 YEARS
GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
* gay pride 50 years *
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.
The June pri paras have spread worldwi, evolvg to addrs new challeng while rememberg gay civil rights pneers. 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.
GAY PRI
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. * gay pride 50 years *
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. " He later beme one of the foundg members of PFLAG — Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays. Pri paras ntued to grow size and populary the, a long-haired uple pos Central Park after a gay pri para New York on June 29, 1975.
MISS GAY MICHIGAN AMERI PAGEANT PROMIS GRAND GLAM
Ellen Broidy, an anizer of the first gay pri march, says she's optimistic the revolutn she's been fightg for sce 1970 "might jt e to beg now." * gay pride 50 years *
Here's what the San Francis pri para looked like durg Ameri's bicentennial queens pose at the "Gay Freedom Day Para" on June 27, 1976. 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.
GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST 50 YEARS
In 1972, members of the LGBTQ+ muny marched through London mandg equaly and celebratg their inti. Five s on, Ted Brown om the Gay Liberatn Front reunts his memori of that time * gay pride 50 years *
Here, a marcher scribed as a female impersonator pos at a gay pri para Copley Square, Boston, Massachetts, 1978. Here, police arrt a protter durg a gay rights monstratn, which would bee known as the first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, June 1978.
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. * gay pride 50 years *
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.