“Out, Gay & Loving It With Pride in New York City June 2011.” In honor of Pride Month Two Thousand Eleven we are taking it to the streets with pre-recorded interviews, history tidbits, LGBT Art, LGBT Culture, LGBT Music and chats with Christopher Street youth June 5th -12th airing on the 19th Live for three hours. All the different aspects of our community and the different contributions to society our community gives. What does Pride mean to you? If you would like to be involved in the series contact Pride@QueerPublicRadio.com. Join us every Sunday in the month of June (Pride [...]
San Francisco Market Street March 1979
... footage from 1979, video filmed by Michael D. Polansky. A little campy, a little political, a community, making a BIG statement… Super video of human LGBT history in full affect. Another great video from glbthistory.org 1979 S.F. Pride Parade – GLBT Historical Society, Courtesy of glbthistory. Thank ...
The Flag 1978, Our Colors Don’t Run, San Francisco
On Saturday afternoon March 19th while discussing the topic of Pride on a roundtable with QueerPublicRadio.com we touched on the subject of the Rainbow Pride Flag. The flag was created by Gilbert Baker an activist/artist born in 1951 often referred to as the Gay Betsy Ross, he was discharged from the ARMY in 1972 and shortly after took up sewing. Gilbert was often asked to make banners for protest and gay pride marches. Gilbert was friends with Harvey Milk whom he had first met in the mid 1970′s First raised in San Francisco, California on June 25, 1978 the original flag contained eight [...]
For the Pride of Love
Come on get up everybody! Move! Move! Slide! Slide! Gay, Lesbian, Trangender, Drag Queens, Bi, Straight, for the sake of human love! Move! Move! Slide! Slide! Have a great, safe, healthy weekend, use this weekend as all weekends to tell someone you love them & hug them.. BYRON STINGILY – GET UP EVERYBODY (PARADE MIX)…THE BEST VERSION!!!, Courtesy of missdeeekay. Thank you ...
Pride 1981 Lesbian and Gay Pride Pinback Button
This Vintage early 1980′s New Wave Lesbian and Gay Pride Button/Pin back from 1981 CSLDC (Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee). The Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee was the founders of the Gay Pride March committee in New York City. In 1984 the committee disbanded and was replaced by the Heritage of Pride, which has run the New York City Pride march ever since. Contributed to backinthegays.com by John of Montclair N.J. Thank you ...
Welcome to the “Legendary” House of Aviance 1989
... club DJ’s. Kevin worked with the Sound Factory dancing and performing with Superstar DJ Junior Vasquez. Kevin was featured in the 1999 movie “Flawless” with Robert De Niro. Kevin Avaince was attacked in June of 2006 at the East Village section of Manhattan while leaving the club Phoenix by a homophobic group of men. Kevin was beaten so hard his jaw bone was smashed requiring his jaw to be wired shut for over a month, still his strength prevailed and he attended the 2006 Pride Parade in NYC. Recently Kevin has been ever building the House of Aviance adding new faces and characters [...]
Dykes on Bikes Front of the Line
... on Bikes (DOB) is a club of mostly lesbian motorcycle clubs from around the world which includes: The Sirens of New York City Dykes on Bikes in Portland Oregon Women’s Motorcycle Contingent in San Francisco California Dykes on Bikes are well known for their appearances in gay pride funtions such as LGBT Pride parades, Lesbian & Dyke Marches and important LGBT events like the International Gay Games. Originally Dykes on Bikes were most likely put at the front of the Gay Pride parade for many different reasons and continue to remain as an important symbol of LGBT pride, defiance, [...]