The annual Pri Para Boystown is a celebratn which ntu a tradn of gay pri Chigo which dat back over a century
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A HISTORY OF GAY PRI CHIGO
Though the first Gay Pri Liberatn March took place Manhattan 1970 to memorate the one-year anniversary of Stonewall, took 30 years for Pri Month to bee official, a 1999 proclamatn om former Print Bill Clton. It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.
Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U. S., to create a symbol of pri for the gay muny. As he later said an terview, “Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth, as I say, to get out of the lie.
The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para. In anticipatn of one of the cy’s most joyful events, I wanted to take a look back at the long and vibrant history of gay pri Chigo. Whether they know or not, the ln or so revelers who will scend on the streets of Boystown at the end of June are ntug a tradn of gay pri Chigo that go back nearly a century.