PHOTOS: NYC Pride History in Pictures

We wouldn't have Pride without New York. After LGBTers stood up to arrests and violence at the Stonewall Inn in 1969, a national equality movement was born and an annual celebration of our lives began. The Center, New York's LGBT center, gathered powerful images of some of the city's earliest Pride events for a powerful new onliine exhibit entitled "Pride March—The Early Years." Take a look at the trailblazers below and see more at gaycenter.org/archives.

Above: AIDS marchers, 1983, photo by Steve Zabel
 

Parade banner, 1970, photo by Leonard Fin

Gay Women’s Liberation Front, 23rd St. & Sixth Ave., 1972, photo by Eric Stephen Jacobs

Crowd in Central Park, 1974, photo by Richard C. Wandel

Times Square, 1973, photo by Leonard Fink

Central Park scene, 1970, photo by Richard C. Wandel

Parent, 1975, photo by Leonard Fink

Mattachine Society, 1973, photo by Leonard Fink

Andrews Sisters impersonator, 12th St. & Seventh Ave., 1973, photo by Leonard Fink

Bisexual Gay & Lesbian Youth of New York, 1974, photo by Richard C. Wandel

Beth Simchat Torah, 1975, photo by Leonard Fink

Marchers, 1981, photo by Richard C. Wandel