Other mainstays of the organizing committee were Judy Miller, Jack Waluska, Steve Gerrie and Brenda Howard of GLF. For initial funding, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donations from the national homophile organizations and sponsors, while Sargeant solicited donations via the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop customer mailing list and Nixon worked to gain financial support from GLF in his position as treasurer for that organization. of Mattachine made up the core group of the CSLD Umbrella Committee (CSLDUC). Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael Brown, Marty Nixon, and Foster Gunnison Jr. At first there was difficulty getting some of the major New York City organizations like Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) to send representatives. Meetings to organize the march began in early January at Rodwell's apartment in 350 Bleecker Street. Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) attended the meeting and were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN).
Īll attendees to the ERCHO meeting in Philadelphia voted for the march except for Mattachine Society of New York, which abstained. We also propose that we contact Homophile organizations throughout the country and suggest that they hold parallel demonstrations on that day. No dress or age regulations shall be made for this demonstration. We propose that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street and this demonstration be called CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATION DAY. On November 2, 1969, Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Linda Rhodes proposed an annual march to be held in New York City by way of a resolution at the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO) meeting in Philadelphia. In the weeks following the riots, 500 people gathered for a "Gay Power" demonstration in Washington Square Park, followed by a march to Sheridan Square. Veterans of the riot formed a group, the Stonewall Veterans Association, which has continued to drive the advancement of LGBT rights from the rioting at the Stonewall Inn, to the present day. This event, together with further protests and rioting over the following nights, marked a watershed moment in the modern LGBT rights movement and the impetus for organizing LGBT pride marches on a much larger scale.
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Our commitment at Heritage of Pride is to continue recognizing our Pride event as a March until complete and full equality has been achieved for all LGBT people.įor more information contact MIND Gay Pride March Organizer Bruce Lamb.Button promoting the second annual pride march in 1971.Įarly on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people rioted, following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan. It was an unpermitted, explicitly political protest of anti-LGBT policies and attitudes. The first LGBT Pride was held on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Why do you call it a March rather than a parade?
EQUALITY NEEDS YOU, and you can answer the call. In 2016, we are making sure that some of the world’s largest and most visible LGBT events are helping to amplify our continued fight. The Supreme Court’s affirmation of marriage equality marked progress in the national and worldwide LGBT movement, but it was not a finish line. Just ask the bisexual homeless youth on the Christopher Street Pier, the trans worker trying to achieve the American dream, or the gay refugee escaping certain death in his war-torn homeland. We’re getting closer, but we aren’t there yet. There will be singing, communion and of course fun! Let’s join together in a prophetic witness.
Gather your church groups and friends as we MIND and many other UMCs join together to march in the NYC Gay Pride March. More information to come as we get closer to the date about meeting location and time.