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(image) Gary Fong/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Here, a long-haired couple poses in Central Park after a gay pride parade in New York on June 29, 1975. Pride parades continued to grow in size and popularity in the 1970s. On the right is American lawyer Dick Ashworth, marching with a sign that reads "I'm proud of my gay son." He later became one of the founding members of PFLAG - Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Here, parents march in support of LGBTQ rights at a June 1974 gay pride in Greenwich Village, New York City. Pride parades also have served as early points of emergence for gay support groups. Meanwhile, gay activists were organizing in San Francisco and beyond.Īn estimated 3,000 people marched down Polk Street during "Christopher Street West," the first organized San Francisco Gay Parade, on June 25, 1972. (image) Barney Peterson/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Here, a woman holds a placard during the 1971 New York parade. In 1958, Rogers and Hammerstein debuted Flower Drum Song, a Broadway musical featuring the camp-ready tune, "I Enjoy Being A Girl." Here's a look at the second-annual New York gathering in Manhattan. (image) New York Daily News/Charles Ruppmann/Getty Imagesīy its second anniversary, the Gay Pride Parade had become one of the biggest processions in New York City. Here, the LGBT parade through New York City on Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day reaches a police line in 1971. Tensions with police were a major factor in the original Stonewall uprising. Here, gay activists protest discrimination at the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day in June 1971 in New York City. Pride parades have always tackled multiple goals, ongoing anti-gay bigotry among them. Here, an unidentified woman holds a large sign that reads, "I am a lesbian and I am beautiful," during the first Stonewall anniversary march, then known as Christopher Street Liberation Day, in New York, on June 28, 1970. Here's a look at just over 50 years of pride parades, both here and abroad, and how they've grown and changed. These June pride parades have spread worldwide, evolving to address new challenges while remembering gay civil rights pioneers.
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Within a few years, organized, annual parades of pride and remembrance would emerge to mark the event. On June 28, 1969, members of New York City's gay community rose up against oppression and state-sponsored violence, fighting back in an event now known as the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Rebellion. J/ 5:37 PM / CBS NEWS (image) Getty Images