Summer Pride Parades Past and Present
1975
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New York City Gay Pride Parade. June 29,
1975. On the left, plaid shirt, Bill Bland,
gay Vietnam veteran
and partner of NG[L]TF
director Bruce Voeller.
On the right, USAF TSGT Leonard Matlovich,
the first gay man to out himself and fight
his discharge. Next to him, left to right,
Army PVT Debbie Watson, 20, and her partner,
PFC Barbara Randolph, 22, the first women to
do the same. They were stationed at Fort
Devens, Massachusetts, where a vicious
lesbian witch hunt that started the previous
year resulted in seven women, including
them, being discharged. Leonard’s shirt
bears a lambda, then the most popular symbol
of the gay rights movement. Not in the
photo, USAF SSGT Skip Keith who had also
outed himself.
Photo and caption courtesy of Michael
Bedwell,
LeonardMatlovich.com |
2010
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Albuquerque
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| June 13, 2010;
The AVER Bataan Chapter (New Mexico) Color
Guard awaits the beginning of the 2010
Albuquerque Pride Parade. Congressman
Martin Heinrich stands with the color guard
under the rainbow flag with his AVER escort,
former LTCDR Ron Freeney in uniform." |
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Seattle
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June
26, 2010 AVER Puget Sound Chapter
Photo:
by
Ruben Rivera-Jackman |
New York
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June
27, 2010, AVERNY, the NY Chapter of American
Veterans For Equal Rights
Photo: Tony Breton |
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