What Is The Evolution Of Gay Pride Parades

In 1969 in Greenwich Village, New York, a 6 day riot took place that would launch the first Pride March and launch the Gay Rights movement as a national movement. The conflict was started when police raided the Stonewall bar, a bar that was a safe place for homosexuals to visit, and violence erupted between the two groups. In the end, homosexuals were granted more rights and gained more acceptance in American culture.

In 2016 President Obama named the Stonewall Inn as the first National monument to LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Questioning, Asexual, Intersex) rights. In history classes, we learned that movements can lead to progression to break down and change constitutional law, and the mindset of society. We hear about the civil rights movement, women’s rights and even the labor movement; but seldom do we hear about the gay rights movement. Many people say that the LGBTQIA community has been fighting since 1912 or WWII, but all can agree that the Stonewall riots started gay liberation and changed the LGBTQ community forever.

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a non-for profit organisation that organises the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade annually. The parade aims to “raise the visibility of the lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities”. This mission is achieved by the organisation through allowing individuals to use the event to promote pride in sexuality as well as sending a wider message of diversity and acceptance. Though the event is considered now considered a mainstream festival and includes over 10000 participants, it originally began as a political protest in 1978 where participants marched in show of support to the National Homosexual conference as well as San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day. During this event participants were violently reprimanded by the police. During the months

"By 1973, there were almost eight hundred gay and lesbian organizations in the United States; by 1990, the number was several thousand. By 1970, 5,000 gay men and lesbians marched in New York City to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots; in October 1987, over 600,000 marched in Washington, to demand equality" (Milestones)

In the 65-year history of LGBTQ activism in the United States, the present moment stands out on the basis of gay marriage being legalized. At no other time would an observer have imagined that the LGBTQ movement was likely to succeed in such a manner that any gender can marry any other gender with the permission by the law (Stewart-winter

This investigation assesses the New York City Stonewall Riots of 1969, concerning their influence on the rise of the modern gay rights movement, specifically regarding political emergence, social unity, and demographic shifts. The investigation will attempt to answer the following question: To what extent were the Stonewall Riots of 1969 a catalyst for the LGBT social movement in America?

For New York’s gay and trans communities the 1960’s marks a turning point in their history; Sodomy had been reduced to a misdemeanour, with a maximum sentence of six months in prison, the anti-gay accommodation rules of the New York State Liquor Authority had been overturned, allowing homosexuals to congregate and be served alcoholic beverages in bars, The American Psychiatric Association reclassified

In today's era, one of the most progressive civil rights movements is that of the LGBT+ community. For many decades, gays, transgenders, and other queers have been under fire for who they love and who they are. On June 28th, 1969, a group of queers subjected to police brutality took a chance to stand up for themselves. Thus starting one of the most widely revered LGBT+ movements: the Stone Wall Riots. This group of courageous men and women (and those in between) were pioneers in the United States gay rights activism, and can even be considered the spark to LGBT+ rights.

The Stonewall Riots in 1969 leading to the first Gay Pride Parade in 1970 started a public discourse on LGBT rights (The Stonewall Riots). In the years to follow, two opposing mass movements manifested: the LGBT movement and the Religious Right movement. The LGBT movement aimed to get equal rights for homosexuals. The Religious Right focused on stopping the perceived moral decay of America and protecting children from lesbians and gays. While these movements had polar opposite goals, they used surprisingly similar methods to get their messages across.

The warm summer day of June twenty-eighth, 1969 was not a quiet one. Although the New York City police had a justification to raid the bar of the Stonewall Inn, which was a safe haven for members of the LGBT community, nothing could prepare them for the uproar their actions would cause on Christopher Street that early morning. Crowd., crown police began their arrests for the selling of liquor without a license, the intense crowd of gathering people did disperse as it was supposed to. In fact, a lesbian named Stormé DeLarverie had refused to move for an officer who was attempting to throw an arrestee into the police vehicle, which not only caused the officer to club her in the face,

There are certainly various points in history that can be construed as trailblazing for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. One event in particular, however, sparked awareness and a call to action that previously could never have been conceptualized in the United States. This unforgettable incident, the Stonewall riots of 1969, altered the public’s view of the gay community and arguably jumpstarted the next revolution in an entirely new civil rights movement.

Even though there was a change and an awareness on the LGBT community, many people still didn’t accept homosexuals. Gay individuals still faced discrimination, verbal abuse and physical violence. Despite this, the LGBT community continued to raise awareness and advocate for their rights. In 2011, the Marriage Equality Act which legalized same-sex marriage for New York residents, was signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, making New York the 6th state to legalize same-sex marriage. It was said by many people including some religious leaders that this was a threat to traditional heterosexual marriage and family, “Marriage is a fundamental good that must be protected in every circumstance. Exemptions of any kind never justify redefining marriage.’...[it]...affirms the vital and unique importance to children of receiving care from both their mother and father together. ... Making marriage law indifferent to the absence of either sex creates an institutional and cultural crisis with generational ramifications yet to be seen’’.The LGBT community rejected those statements and developed legal arguments to battle the entrenched discrimination. Furthermore, the LGBT community began to hold a pride parade on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. This occurs in New York and other major cities around the world at the end of

Many major cities across the United States had local publications that give insight into how a community developed and reacted to the events of the decade. Kansas City, Missouri was one of these cities. Throughout the 1970s there were no less than eight regular newsletters or newsmagazines. The majority of them did not run concurrently but by when examined chronologically they tell a story of the changes that occurred within the gay and lesbian community in Kansas City.

1969, this was a pivotal year for gay rights movement. It was the year that the Stone Wall Inn located in Greenwich Village was raided by the police, and many people were arrested for being gay. This brought about large numbers of riots in retaliation to the police actions. As a result of all of these events, the first gay pride march in the U.S was born.

“We’re here, we’re queer, get over it.” In 1990, these words, shouted and displayed proudly on signs waved by the activist group, Queer Nation, were revolutionary. Never, not since the Stonewall Riots, had non-straight, non-cis people been so vocal about their existence and demanded acceptance – something that straight people take for granted on a daily basis. However, in the years since the Riots, LGBT activism has become much more mainstream, no longer whispered about behind closet doors or something to be wholly ashamed of. Gay marriage is legal in all 50 United States, something that has been fought for since the conception of the LGBT movement. In fact, gay couples are routinely being featured on popular television and other forms of media. Some might say that in 2016, the dreams of the rioters in Stonewall have been realized. Marriage rights and the spotlight on nighttime television; equality seems to truly be right on the horizon.