gay liberation

In the days immediately following the riots, gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals organized the Gay Liberation Front to work alongside the Black Panthers, the Puerto Rican Young Lords, Women’s Liberation Movement, and student anti-war movements.

The city had already held several annual Gay Freedom Day celebrations—which would eventually become known as Pride—in commemoration of the Stonewall uprising of 1969, when queers fought back against police harassment at a New York City gay bar, jump-starting the gay liberation movement.

It would turn out to be a critical crossroads for the gay liberation movement, and not just because it triggered the first statewide vote on gay rights.

This year's Pride is celebrating 50 years since the first gay liberation protest march in the city in 1973.

Without evidence, Gonzalez said that proposed instruction would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teaching about the gay liberation movement that began in the 1960s because it’s “not appropriate to discuss sexuality.”