Chigo hosted the first Gay Pri Para the Uned Stat on June 27, 1970. Here's a look back at how the annual event has evolved through the years.
Contents:
- LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
- MEET THE BADASS PHOTOGRAPHER WHO PTURED CHIGO’S 1976 GAY PRI PARA
- GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA - 1976
- INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
- THE MASPETH GAY NETI PARA, 1976
LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri. * gay parade 1976 *
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. 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.
MEET THE BADASS PHOTOGRAPHER WHO PTURED CHIGO’S 1976 GAY PRI PARA
It was a time before the rabow flag, before the Whe Night rts and before HIV and AIDS vastated a muny. This ABC7 special report, shown s entirety, giv a glimpse to what gay life was like San Francis 1976. * gay parade 1976 *
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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA - 1976
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Pri paras often allow diverse groups to e forward and seek, a group of lbian and gay Catholic activists hold a banner at the annual Pri Para New York Cy June 1980. Two years after the first news story about AIDS appeared a New York publitn, gay activists are seen takg their fight agast the disease to the 's a view of the 1983 para New York Cy.
Among a crowd on the grass outsi the Civic Center San Francis, two women share a event: The 1984 Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para.
A homophobic monstratn is seen on Fifth Avenue durg Gay Pri Day New York June protters hold plards equatg the current mayor wh the AIDS crisis. As seen om above, marchers, cludg a bagpipe player, display a Police Gay Officers Actn League banner on Christopher event: The annual New York Cy Pri March New York on June 30, 1985. A young girl intified only as Jennifer ris ont of her mother among the Dyk on Bik group, tablished event: The Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para, San Francis, June 15, 1985.
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
A picture gallery and story about the Gay Pri Paras of the 1970's San Francis * gay parade 1976 *
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. A shirtls man pos a crowd on Market Street durg the Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis , para anizers say the annual San Francis event is the largt gatherg of s kd the natn.
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. A group lled the Bety Queens pos, drsed up for a pri para 1950s-style bathg Pastel, a red glterg body su, would lead the group the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras on Febary 27, 1993.
THE MASPETH GAY NETI PARA, 1976
Performer RuPl attends the Gay and Lbian Pri Para on June 12, 1994 at Santa Moni Boulevard Wt Hollywood, TV personaly now hosts "RuPl's Drag Race.
A gay rights activist wearg an elaborate stume, mask, and headdrs walks on stilts bi other activists durg the New York Gay Pri March, 1994. Marchers at a Lbian and Gay Pri event pose outsi Wtmster Abbey London on June 24, the 1990s, this particular event had grown more party-like, wh a fair after the march. Several hundred Latvian gay and lbian marchers staged the untry's third Gay Pri rally unr tight secury aimed at preventg protts that marred prev events.
Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that is Pri Month for LGBT and queer people. Gee Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York Cy’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, documented scen om pri paras New York Cy om the late 1970s through the early ‘90s.