Gay Pride 2020
“…commemorate the Christopher Street Uprisings of last summer in which thousands of homosexuals went to the streets to demonstrate against centuries of abuse … from government hostility to employment and […]
Tag Archives: Gay Pride
The Bethesda Angel, Its Lesbian Connection
“All had expected something great, something of angelic power and beauty and when a feebly-pretty idealess thing of bronze was revealed the revulsion of feeling was painful. The figure resembles […]
Keith Haring’s Art in New York
“Obviously, the only place to go was New York. It was the only place where I would find the intensity I needed and wanted. I wanted intensity for my art […]
The Gay Liberation Monument
“… to be loving and caring, and show the affection that is the hallmark of gay people … and it had to have equal representation of men and women.” —Requirements […]
We Are Orlando Mural
“I saw men and men, women and women, standing side-by-side reading the names on the mural. That whole experience was the thing I’m most grateful for.” —Wayne P. Rada, founder […]
The Gay Rainbow Flag
“It all goes back to the first moment of the first flag back in 1978 for me. Raising it up and seeing it there blowing in the wind for everyone […]
Julius’, Where Gay Civil Rights Began
“The whole thing ended up in court, and the court decided well, yes, the Constitution says that people have the right to peacefully assemble and the state can’t take that […]
Walk About New York on TV
“Death cannot kill what never dies.” —the poignant epitaph chiseled into the gravestone of the groundbreaking artist Violet Oakley (1874–1961) On Sunday, June 28th—Gay Pride Sunday—Walk About New York led […]
Pride: Then and Now
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” —Saint Augustine (AD 354–AD 430) Ever mindful that pride goeth before a fall; here […]
