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Contents:

• WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
• PAST HOSTILY FAS AWAY AS GAYS SHOW PRI LONG BEACH PARA
• LBIAN AND GAY PRI PARA, LONDON, JUNE 1985
• GAY RIGHTS
• ALCF JIM HUBBARD FILMS GAY/LBIAN PRI 1985 CLIP 6752-53
• FEELG BIAS BY L.B., GAYS VOW TO MAKE PARA NATNAL EVENT

WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

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PAST HOSTILY FAS AWAY AS GAYS SHOW PRI LONG BEACH PARA

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LONG BEACH — The sixth annual Lbian and Gay Pri Para and Ftival went off whout a hch last was the ual assortment of participants rangg om flamboyant drag queens to sober-lookg activists rryg signs advotg homosexual rights and the rights of AIDS patients. The June 28, 1969 raid spurred three days of rtg and is generally nsired the begng of the morn homosexual rights a lol level, anizers say, the 1989 Long Beach Lbian and Gay Pri Para and Ftival provid a major ntrast to s own begngs, which speaks volum about how much this cy has 500 people led the streets to see that first para 1984, Doyle said. “I’ve always relied on the advice of the cy attorney, ” Harwood said discsg his 1985 vote agast permtg the ftival to n for two days and other posns nsired anathema by homosexual Ernie Kell, who as a votg member of the uncil often sid wh Harwood on issu pertag to the gay event, now says that his early fears regardg s propriety have been proven unfound.

LBIAN AND GAY PRI PARA, LONDON, JUNE 1985

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. 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. Their fac reflected the motorcycle mirror unr a Pri flag, a pair of women the Dyk on Bik group wa the Castro District for the start of the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para, San Francis, on June 26, known as the San Francis Dyk on Bik Women's Motorcycle Contgent, the group supports chari the LGBT muny.

GAY RIGHTS

Amerin textile artist and gay rights activist Gilbert Baker (1951-2017) seen here stumed as J, rri a cross as he march wh others on Market Street durg the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis, California, on June 24, 1990. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

ALCF JIM HUBBARD FILMS GAY/LBIAN PRI 1985 CLIP 6752-53

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

FEELG BIAS BY L.B., GAYS VOW TO MAKE PARA NATNAL EVENT

" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.