![]() ![]() Safety monitor holding a walkie-talkie at the 1973 Gay Freedom Day Parade (photo by Crawford Barton, Crawford Barton Papers courtesy GLBT Historical Society) More than a half-century since the first Pride celebrations were coordinated - falteringly, in some cases, such as in San Francisco, where a “gay-in” picnic with just a few dozen participants was dispersed by mounted police - Pride has swelled into a month-long affair, one attended by city mayors, sponsored by corporate brands, and capped by parades that last longer than long workdays. Around that time, Pride celebrations were also organized in cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles, establishing the events surrounding Stonewall as a national landmark in heightening the visibility around LGBTQ+ rights organizing and solidarity. Activists called it Christopher Street Liberation Day, a commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots - when Greenwich Village’s gay community protested violent police raids on Stonewall Inn and fought for their right to freely associate without fear of intimidation. The first New York Pride parade took place in 1970 on the last weekend of June.
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