Pride parades : how a parade changed the world / Katherine McFarland Bruce.
On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity. Forty-five years later, more than six million...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Changing the world with pride
- Part I. Pride then. From "gay is good" to "unapologetically gay" : pride beginnings ; "Unity in diversity" : pride growth
- Part II. Pride now. "We're here, we're queer, get used to it!" : cultural contestation at pride ; "Pride comes in many colors" : variation among parades ; "We are family" : building community at pride
- Conclusion: The future of pride
- Appendix A: Studying pride
- Appendix B: Descriptions of the 1970 pride participants
- Appendix C: The spread of pride from 1975 to 2010.
- Introduction: changing the world with pride
- From "gay is good" to "unapologetically gay": pride beginnings
- "Unity in diversity": pride growth
- "We're here, we're queer, get used to it!": cultural contestation at pride
- "Pride comes in many colors": variation among parades
- "We are family": building community at pride
- Conclusion: the future of pride.