"For the people to publicly make a statement that they were gay or lbian was this enormo risk for them — they uld have lost everythg."
Contents:
GAY RIGHTS
A look back at a major turng pot the stggle for gay rights * gay rights pictures *
Every Fourth of July begng 1965, the Remr march—named after the need to "remd" the public of the opprsn faced by the gay muny—aimed to secure acceptance by showg how unthreateng LGBT people were to the rt of society. One year later, 1970, activists like Brenda Howard brastormed an alternative set of march that would embrace the new ethos of gay liberatn.
” The march would also be natnal spe— a forhadowg of Pri celebratns today, they wanted "a natnwi show of support" for gay rights.
A ntgent at the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day New York clutch a sign that reads "Gay Liberatn, " 1970. View of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, 1970. An LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.
* gay rights pictures *
A uple at an LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.
One ntgent at the 1971 Christopher Street Liberatn Day was the Gay Activists Alliance, one of a nstellatn of gay liberatn groups that formed after the Stonewall Rts. Gay and lbian parents march alongsi a "Parents of Gays" group, an early rnatn of the group FLAG, 1973.
Began an antigay mpaign attributed to a puranil effort to clean up the cy's streets advance of the 1964 World's Fair. The mpaign closed gay bars by systematilly revokg liquor licens and simultaneoly targeted gay men through entrapment. The mpaign was brought to an end after Mayor Ldsay entered office 1966 (partly due to lobbyg om Dick Lesch and Mattache) queens (g the language of the era) were the equent targets of the NYPD's Public Morals Sectn, which enforced all laws ncerng vice and gamblg, which also clud homosexualy.