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She also went on to co-found Kansas City's Christopher Street organization and the Gay Injustices Fund. [1] In 1977, Hopkins organized Kansas City's first pride parade, which numbered about 25-30 people. [2] [5] A few weeks later, in July 1977, she organized a protest against Anita Bryant, who was speaking at a bookstore in the city. [2] [3]
1998: The event's attendance continued to grow through the years, hitting an estimated 14,000 people. 2004: More than 80,000 people attended the Pride parade in 2004 in Columbus, ranking it second ...
Participants and parade-goers, some caked in makeup, sequins and rainbow flags, danced through the streets of Kansas City’s annual Pride Parade and festival Saturday.
Kansas City celebrated the city’s LGBTQ community Saturday with the 47th Pride Parade. Viewers lined the streets while hundreds of parade participants started in the streets of Westport and made ...
A pride parade (also known as pride event, pride festival, pride march, or pride protest) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer social and self-acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride. The events sometimes also serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage.
During Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 in Manhattan, over 5 million took part over the final weekend, [5] [6] with an estimated four million in attendance at the parade. [7] [8] While NYC Pride still has the largest Pride March, since 2023 Pride Toronto has had the largest Pride Festival in North America with 2.9 million attendees in 2023 ...
Clockwise from top-left: Crowd attempts to impede police arrests outside the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969; the Gay Activists Alliance march during Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day in 1971 ...
A 1970s gay liberation protest in Washington, D.C.. The first pride marches were held in four US cities in June 1970, one year after the riots at the Stonewall Inn. [3] The New York City march, promoted as "Christopher Street Liberation Day", alongside the parallel marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, marked a watershed moment for LGBT rights. [4]