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Contents:
- GAY PRI
- MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
- FROM GLTER TO UNY: UNVEILG THE GLOBAL SPECTACLE OF THE GAY PRI PARA
GAY PRI
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. * origins of gay parade *
The imag pict San Francis’s lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) pri paras 1977 and 1978.
While early "homophile" anizatns advoted for gay and lbian rights, they did so quietly.
Homophile anizers New York seized on this activy by planng natnally ordated paras to memorate the rt and advance a more visible LGBT rights movement.
MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
For example, this photograph picts people marchg San Jose’s first lbian/gay pri para 1974. In June 1964, Ameri’s largt-circulatn fay magaze, Life, proclaimed the natn’s “gay pal. ” LGBT anizers the 1960s and early 1970s had ma signifint gas improvg police relatns, formg a strong gay bs district, and enactg LGBT rights ordanc there.
Pl, Mnota; Wicha, Kansas; and Eugene, Oregon also overturned gay rights ordanc. The day after the Da County vote, John Briggs—state senator om Orange County, California—announced plans to troduce legislatn to prohib gays om teachg public schools. Among the groups photographed clud San Jose Gays, Third World Gay Cc, Straights for Gay Rights, the Peace and Freedom Party, and Lbians Unr 21.
In 1977, Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California. This photograph shows him speakg to marchers 1978, as the cy’s first openly gay supervisor. The rabow flag, which was origally created for the 1978 pri para, now fli over Harvey Milk Plaza San Francis’s Castro neighborhood, arguably the bt known gay neighborhood the world.
FROM GLTER TO UNY: UNVEILG THE GLOBAL SPECTACLE OF THE GAY PRI PARA
Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians. In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians.
Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy. Stonewall RtsAs was mon practice many ci, the New York Police Department would ocsnally raid bars and rtrants where gays and lbians were known to gather.