Your browser is not supported for this experience. We recommend using Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari. This was a distinctly political event that was preceded by a full week of workshops on various issues affecting the emerging gay community, such as coming out and gay spirituality.
Paul's Cathedral on Tremont Street. At each stop, a speaker presented a list of demands. When the marchers arrived at the State House, a call was issued to include homosexuals in civil rights legislation and eliminate anti-sodomy statutes dating from Puritan times.
Speaker Laura McMurry told the throng, As gay people, we have been given a second-class citizenship. We demand an end to this now! We will not be put down any longer. This walking tour follows the route of Boston's first Gay Pride March in and offers information about different services, community organizations, issues, and individuals related to this route. They stood up when the Stonewall Bar on Christopher Street was raided We and others across the nation commemorate that event this June.
We celebrate the awakening of a vigorous gay pride and self-respect. Opened in , Jacques became a gay bar in the mids. In , its owner also opened, directly across the street, The Other Side,the first discotheque in the city to allow same-sex dancing. After serving as the city's only lesbian bar from the late s to the early s, Jacques evolved into a venue for drag performers, which remains its focus to today.
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The reason Boston's first Gay Pride March started here was to confront a number of community concerns directed at what is now the city's oldest surviving GLBT establishment, Jacques. Of primary importance to the march's organizers was the club's increasing problem with misogyny and the ill treatment of lesbian patrons.
