“GAY PRIDE,” Toronto Gay Action members at the start of Toronto’s second Gay Pride

“GAY PRIDE,” Toronto Gay Action members at the start of Toronto’s second Gay Pride March, Toronto, Ontario, August 26, 1972. Photo © Jearld Moldenhauer. On August 20, 1971, forty-five years ago today, about a dozen members of Toronto Gay Action participated in what properly is considered the first Gay Pride March in Toronto. According to pioneering activist and photographer Jearld Moldenhauer, the group “had no parade permit, and simply marched down Yonge Street’s sidewalks with our signs.” By August 1972, Moldenhauer explains, “the movement had really taken off; not just in Toronto, but in most urban centers in Canada,” and the second Toronto Gay Pride March (pictured) was a bigger affair. The first “official” (i.e., government-sanctioned) Toronto Pride Parade took place on June 28, 1981. “For the life of me,” Moldenhauer notes, “I have never understood how and why so much of the gay media during the last two decades consider the first Pride events to have ‘begun’ when official government recognition was finally won sometime in the 1980s.” #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #QueerHistoryMatters #HavePrideInHistory #JearldMoldenhauer (at Toronto, Ontario) -- source link

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