Help</tle><g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-le="evenodd"><g fill="#FFFFFF"><path d="M11.75,1.5 C6.098,1.5 1.5,6.098 1.5,11.75 C1.5,17.402 6.098,22 11.75,22 C17.402,22 22,17.402 22,11.75 C22,6.098 17.402,1.5 11.75,1.5 M11.75,23.5 C5.271,23.5 0,18.229 0,11.75 C0,5.271 5.271,0 11.75,0 C18.229,0 23.5,5.271 23.5,11.75 C23.5,18.229 18.229,23.5 11.75,23.5"></path><polygon pots="11 18 12.5 18 12.5 9 11 9"></polygon><polygon pots="11 7 12.5 7 12.5 5.5 11 5.5"></polygon></g></g></svg></span></button></li><li><button class="toggle-sound-hear"><span class="label"></span> <span class="in sound-on"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path fill="#FFF" d="M3 9v6h4l5 5V4L7 9H3zm13.5 3c0-1.77-1.02-3.29-2.5-4.03v8.05c1.48-.73 2.5-2.25 2.5-4.02zM14 3.23v2.06c2.89.86 5 3.54 5 6.71s-2.11 5.85-5 6.71v2.06c4.01-.91 7-4.49 7-8.77s-2.99-7.86-7-8.77z"/></svg></span><span class="in sound-off"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path fill="#FFF" d="M16.5 12c0-1.77-1.02-3.29-2.5-4.03v2.21l2.45 2.45c.03-.2.05-.41.05-.63zm2.5 0c0 .94-.2 1.82-.54 2.64l1.51 1.51C20.63 14.91 21 13.5 21 12c0-4.28-2.99-7.86-7-8.77v2.06c2.89.86 5 3.54 5 6.71zM4.27 3L3 4.27 7.73 9H3v6h4l5 5v-6.73l4.25 4.25c-.67.52-1.42.93-2.25 1.18v2.06c1.38-.31 2.63-.95 3.69-1.81L19.73 21 21 19.73l-9-9L4.27 3zM12 4L9.91 6.09 12 8.18V4z"/></svg></span></button></li></ul><div class="sendary-nav-flt l-XS-right-offset-1 l-S-right-offset-1 l-M-right-offset-1 l-L-right-offset-1 l-XL-right-offset-1"><a href="/documentary" class="watch-documentary cta-unrle">Watch the Documentary</a></div><button tle="close" class="close-current-modal"><svg width="24px" height="24px" viewBox="0 0 24 24" versn="1.1"><tle>Close</tle><g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-le="evenodd"><g><g transform="translate(3.000000, 3.500000)" fill="#FFFFFF"><rect transform="translate(9.000000, 8.500000) rotate(45.000000) translate(-9.000000, -8.500000) " x="-2" y="8" width="22" height="1"></rect><rect transform="translate(9.000000, 8.500000) rotate(-45.000000) translate(-9.000000, -8.500000) " x="-2" y="8" width="22" height="1"></rect></g></g></g></svg></button></div></div></hear><div class="spam-protect"></div><div class="webgl-wrapper"></div><ma id="ntent"><sectn class="page-wrapper monument-tail monument-image"><span class="background"></span><div class="grid-ntaer ma-asset-ntaer"><div class="row center"><div class="ntent-wrapper"><div class="mon-text-ntaer l-XS-14 l-S-14 l-M-10 l-M-offset-1"><p class="tegory eyebrow"></p><p class="small-tle-boi small-headle"></p></div></div><div class="ntent-wrapper"><div class="l-XS-14 l-S-14 l-M-19 l-M-offset-1 l-XL-19 l-XL-offset-1 image-ntaer image-ntaer-ma"><div class="lazy" data-src=" data-siz="XS: 420, M: 800, L: 1000, XL: 1440" alt></div></div><div class="l-XS-14 l-S-14 l-M-10 l-M-offset-1 l-XL-10 l-XL-offset-1 ma-py-ntaer"><h1 class="small-tle ma-tle">First Christopher Street Liberatn Day March, 1970</h1><div class="scriptn-ntaer"><p class="ma-body scriptn-ntent">The banner om the begng of the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day March, 1970. The CSLD March took place exactly one year after the Stonewall Rts, on June 28, 1970, but wasn't the first LGBTQ rights march the U.S. That distctn belongs to Chigo, who hosted their first Gay Pri Para on June 27, 1970, one day before New York Cy. Photograph om the Leonard Fk Photography Collectn, the LGBT Communy Center Natnal History Archiv.</p></div><button class="read-more" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="scriptn-first-christopher-street-liberatn-day-march-1970" id="read-more-first-christopher-street-liberatn-day-march-1970">Read more</button></div></div></div></div><div class="pagatn small-tle"><span class="page"></span><span aria-hidn="te">/</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="total-page"></span></div><div class="xs-scriptn" role="regn" id="scriptn-first-christopher-street-liberatn-day-march-1970" aria-hidn="te" aria-labelledby="read-more-first-christopher-street-liberatn-day-march-1970"><div class="xs-sc-ntent"><div class="xs-ntent"><p class="small-tle">First Christopher Street Liberatn Day March, 1970</p><div class="scriptn-ntaer"><p class="ma-body scriptn-ntent">The banner om the begng of the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day March, 1970. The CSLD March took place exactly one year after the Stonewall Rts, on June 28, 1970, but wasn't the first LGBTQ rights march the U.S. That distctn belongs to Chigo, who hosted their first Gay Pri Para on June 27, 1970, one day before New York Cy. Photograph om the Leonard Fk Photography Collectn, the LGBT Communy Center Natnal History Archiv.</p></div></div><button tle="close" class="read-more-close"><svg width="24px" height="24px" viewBox="0 0 24 24" versn="1.1"><tle>Close

first gay liberation march

The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.

Contents:

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

A look back at a major turng pot the stggle for gay rights * first gay liberation march *

”When John D’E heard a group of LGBTQ activists would be marchg the streets of New York June 1970, he told his boyiend and several of his gay iends. “Comg out” me wh threats of vlence and social that changed the aftermath of the 1969 Stonewall uprisg—when a group of LGBTQ people rted rponse to a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy. In 1965, for example, members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) began picketg each year on July 4 outsi Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.

“The homosexual who wants to live a life of self-fulfillment our current society has all the rds stacked agast them, ” read one 1970 article about the upg march the Gay Liberatn Front News. ” The same day, a small group of San Francisns marched down Polk Street, then had a “gay-” piic that was broken up by equtrian and other New York groups had spent months planng the Manhattan event wh the help of anizers like Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist who had cut her anizg teeth durg the anti-Vietnam movement of the late 1960s.

GAY RIGHTS

* first gay liberation march *

LAPD chief Edward Davis had a history of bashg LA’s gay muny, pared activists to bank robbers, and said the group would have to pay $1, 500 and post a $1. 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.

REMEMBERG THE 1970 CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN DAY MARCH

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. 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. 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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* FIRST GAY LIBERATION MARCH

Rememberg The 1970 Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March - Gothamist .

TOP