How Activists Organized the First Gay Pri Paras | HISTORY

Contents:

• CO-FOUNR OF GAY PRI PARA CLAIMS TRANS ACTIVISTS ATTACKED HIM DURG VERMONT PARA
• INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• GAY PRI
• MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG

CO-FOUNR OF GAY PRI PARA CLAIMS TRANS ACTIVISTS ATTACKED HIM DURG VERMONT PARA

Fred Sargeant, a -founr of New York Cy's first gay pri para 1970, alleged that transgenr activists attacked him durg a para Vermont on 74-year-old is a proment gay rights lear who participated the 1969 Stonewall rts. Sargeant said he believ the "genr inty movement" has stolen the "gay liberatn movement.

""The ncern I have is that the movement that I knew, the gay liberatn movement, has metamorphosized to a genr inty movement that is que misogynistic, homophobic – valu that I n't share, " Sargeant told Natnal Review. " On the reverse si of the sign, read "Gay, Not Queer.

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

He also stated that the activists poured ffee on his head and stole his wrote on Facebook, "So, I went to Pri to prott their misogyny, homophobia, exclnary polici and divisivens.

”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.

HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

For centuri, homosexualy had been stigmatized, crimalized, and persecuted. “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.

Now known as the first Pri paras, the gay liberatn march that took place New York and other U. )Stonewall sparks a movementDpe the rampant homophobia of the early 20th century, the LGBTQ muny had ma self visible before.

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. Sudnly, the gay liberatn movement that had been perlatg boiled over. “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.

GAY PRI

“Gay Liberatn is for the homosexual who ref to accept such a ndn.

Gay Liberatn is for the homosexual who stands up, and fights back. ”The first gay liberatn marchAround the untry, groups began to plan their own memorative march. Around 150 marchers marched om Civic Center Plaza to Washgton Square shoutg slogans like “Gay power to gay people.

MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG

” 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.

And monstrators shouted slogans like “Gay power, ” “Gay is okay, ” and “Gay, gay, all the way! I always say that gay liberatn was nceived at Stonewall 1969 and born at that first march. ” The marchers parad om Greenwich Village to Central Park, where they held a gay- gatherg wh speech and every muny weled s para.