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(image) Barney Peterson/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Here, a woman holds a placard during the 1971 New York parade. In 1958, Rogers and Hammerstein debuted Flower Drum Song, a Broadway musical featuring the camp-ready tune, "I Enjoy Being A Girl." Here's a look at the second-annual New York gathering in Manhattan. (image) New York Daily News/Charles Ruppmann/Getty Imagesīy its second anniversary, the Gay Pride Parade had become one of the biggest processions in New York City. Here, the LGBT parade through New York City on Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day reaches a police line in 1971. Tensions with police were a major factor in the original Stonewall uprising. Here, gay activists protest discrimination at the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day in June 1971 in New York City. Pride parades have always tackled multiple goals, ongoing anti-gay bigotry among them. Here, an unidentified woman holds a large sign that reads, "I am a lesbian and I am beautiful," during the first Stonewall anniversary march, then known as Christopher Street Liberation Day, in New York, on June 28, 1970. Here's a look at just over 50 years of pride parades, both here and abroad, and how they've grown and changed. These June pride parades have spread worldwide, evolving to address new challenges while remembering gay civil rights pioneers.
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Within a few years, organized, annual parades of pride and remembrance would emerge to mark the event. On June 28, 1969, members of New York City's gay community rose up against oppression and state-sponsored violence, fighting back in an event now known as the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Rebellion. J/ 5:37 PM / CBS NEWS (image) Getty Images