Name/TitleBadge: 4th Annual Christopher Street Gay Pride Day
About this objectRound pin badge with hot pink background bearing the words '4th annual christopher street gay pride day' in black lettering around the edges. In the centre is the image of a 'STONEWALL INN' sign hanging from a brick wall with '73' below. Obtained by donor on this day at Washington Square Park, New York City, 1973.
MakerN.G. Slater Corp
Date Made1973
Period1970s
Place MadeUSA, New York
Medium and MaterialsInorganic, metal and plastic
Inscription and MarksAround edge, printed: "N.G. SLATER CORP, N.Y.C. [11?]"
MeasurementsDia: 45 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQ+
Subject and Association KeywordsPride
Subject and Association KeywordsEqual rights
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Street_Day:
Christopher Street Day (CSD) is an annual European LGBTQ+ celebration and demonstration held in various cities across Europe for the rights of LGBTQ+ people, and against discrimination and exclusion. It is Germany's and Switzerland's counterpart to Gay Pride or Pride Parades. Austria calls their Pride Parade Rainbow Parade. The most prominent CSD events are Berlin Pride, CSD Hamburg, CSD Cologne, Germany and Zürich in Switzerland.
The CSD is held in memory of the Stonewall Riots, the first big uprising of LGBT people against police assaults that took place at the Stonewall Inn, a bar on Manhattan, New York City's Christopher Street in the district of Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969.
On Saturday, June 27, 1970, marches to mark the first anniversary of Stonewall were held in Chicago and San Francisco, followed on Sunday, June 28, 1970, by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade in New York and the Christopher Street West Association Parade in Los Angeles; the four gatherings were the first Pride parades in United States history. To accommodate the interests of the many different groups participating, the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee named the days leading up to the march Gay Pride Week.
The first four American cities have since continued to celebrate Pride on the last weekend of each June. It has become an international tradition to hold a demonstration for the rights of LGBT people in the summer. The first German Christopher Street Day took place in Berlin in 1979; other parades before then had different names. The first documented LGBT parade in Germany was in Münster on 29 April 1972. The first parade in Switzerland was celebrated on June 24, 1978 in Zürich and was called "Christopher Street Liberation Memorial Day."
Object TypeBadge
Object numberGWL-2023-20-2
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