50 years of gay pride

WorldPride Washington, DC

Washington, DC will host WorldPride

marks the 50th Anniversary of Pride celebrations in Washington, DC! The Capital Lgbtq+ fest Alliance is thrilled for Washington, DC to host WorldPride and share this momentous and thrilling milestone with our international community. Enter and celebrate May 23 – June 8, !

WorldPride Amsterdam

Amsterdam will host WorldPride

Amsterdam is famous as a capital of tolerance. With nationalities it’s the most diverse metropolis in the Society. The diversity is also related to our strong and vivid LGBTQIA+ group, which belongs to Amsterdam and strengthens its atmosphere of tolerance and creativity. It was in that the world’s first same-sex marriage was conducted by our former mayor. We are proud of this fact and in we will celebrate 25 years of marriage equality. Nowadays, tolerance for and freedom of the LGBTQIA+ society is not widespread. Therefore, the urban area of Amsterdam has put serious strive into protecting our community. Each summer, the whole ci

On June 28, , members of New York City's gay community rose up against oppression and state-sponsored violence, fighting back in an event now recognizable as the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Rebellion.

Within a few years, organized, annual parades of pride and remembrance would emerge to mark the event. These June pride parades own spread worldwide, evolving to address new challenges while remembering gay civil rights pioneers. Here's a gaze at just over 50 years of pride parades, both here and abroad, and how they've grown and changed.

Here, an unidentified woman holds a massive sign that reads, "I am a lesbian and I am beautiful," during the first Stonewall anniversary march, then known as Christopher Street Liberation Time, in New York, on June 28,

Protesting oppression

Pride parades have always tackled multiple goals, ongoing anti-gay bigotry among them.

Here, lgbtq+ activists protest discrimination at the Christopher Street Same-sex attracted Liberation Day in June in New York City.

Toeing a line

Tensions with police were a major factor in the original Stonewall uprising.

Here, the LG

50 years of surviving… Celebration and what is the legacy ?

The year :

A not so tender and not so angelic year-old recently thrown out of school for existence gay goes to their first GAY MARCH in London.

Yes somewhere in that lot was me… not only having been thrown out of school I had run away from home and joined a commune of gay men in Notting Hill gate, living in a production studio, sharing all possessions, money and clothes, beds, and each other ….

PRIDE then was indeed not just a yearly march… spaces and places to be openly and publicly ‘GAY’ were so rare and far between (a few clubs and pubs, and heavily policed cruising areas) that any common open meeting of more than three ‘obvious’ lgbtq+ men and women had to be turned into an ‘event- for guard, for strength in numbers, to show the society that we were not hiding no more &#; and to show our more ‘closeted’ brothers and sisters that there was more to life than living ‘lives of hushed desperation’ and in phobia. Tune in, turn on, drop out &#; the flower power generation and the radical politics of the GAY LIBERATION FRONT was a heady

50 Years of Pride — Stonewall Brought a Year-Old Movement into the Daylight

I have the privilege of serving the bi society as Executive Director of the American Institute of Bisexuality , a nonprofit with its headquarters located in downtown Los Angeles. Our office, which doubles as an event space, is recognizable locally as “The Bi Loft.” It is only steps from the former location of Cooper Do-nuts , site of America’s first uprising against police mistreatment of LGBT people, all the way back in May of

That historic shop on Main Street, which was wedged between two gay bars, has drawn-out since been razed and replaced with a huge parking lot. Still, when I pass by I often wonder to myself: could the queer men, transgender women, and street hustlers who threw donuts, coffee, trash, sugar packets, mugs, and anything else they could find as they fought back against the police have foreseen the revolution that was coming? Could they hold imagined entire communities of out, proud LGBT people across the globe? Did they dare to dream big enough to deliberate that America (and 28 additional countries as of