It is mid-June, the sun is shining down on everybody wearing rainbow colored everything from shirts, bandanas, and even painting their body in the colors of the rainbow. This is the month of gay pride marches. These events attract thousands of people every year to support and take pride in being gay. These parades are a good way of raising awareness of LGBT rights and ways they can be improved. Marches like that have a purpose behind them and prove to be effective every year; pride parades have a history that dates almost fifty years and to this day are still significant events that people look forward to every June.
In New York City 1969, there was a popular bar, Stonewall, that was not gay bar, but openly accepted everyone that came inside, which also included gay and trans people. At the time, this was one of the only bars with rules like these, so it quickly became a popular spot for people of the LGBT community to hangout. Before the 1960s, there were very few rights to protect gay people from discrimination. In fact, according to an article about the stonewall riots on history.com, “men could be arrested for wearing drag and women for having less …show more content…
They decided to suggest the idea of a parade to the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO). After the idea was accepted, an activist by the name of Brenda Howard put the plan into action. According to History.com, “the openly bisexual Howard was active in the anti-war and feminist movements during the turbulent ‘60s. She wasn’t afraid to make a statement, and she was known for her campaigning and organizing” (History.com). It is to her that we owe the start of gay pride marches. On June 28, 1970, the 51-block long march was held in Central Park where thousands of people held a “gay-in” that was “both a protest and a celebration”
In New York City 1969, there was a popular bar, Stonewall, that was not gay bar, but openly accepted everyone that came inside, which also included gay and trans people. At the time, this was one of the only bars with rules like these, so it quickly became a popular spot for people of the LGBT community to hangout. Before the 1960s, there were very few rights to protect gay people from discrimination. In fact, according to an article about the stonewall riots on history.com, “men could be arrested for wearing drag and women for having less …show more content…
They decided to suggest the idea of a parade to the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO). After the idea was accepted, an activist by the name of Brenda Howard put the plan into action. According to History.com, “the openly bisexual Howard was active in the anti-war and feminist movements during the turbulent ‘60s. She wasn’t afraid to make a statement, and she was known for her campaigning and organizing” (History.com). It is to her that we owe the start of gay pride marches. On June 28, 1970, the 51-block long march was held in Central Park where thousands of people held a “gay-in” that was “both a protest and a celebration”