1977 and 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade video

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Video of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. The footage appears to be of two parades, one dated 1977 and one dated 1978. Groups and figures include: Lesbian rights, unions, Gay Disabilities Rights, Stonewall Coalition, Gay Teachers, Ministers for Human Rights, floats, Jane Doe Empress, Anita Bryant, San Francisco State University, Gay Health Workers and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Briggs Initiative, Stud, NOW, San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps, and others.

CONTINGENTS/PARTICIPANTS

Part 1 (1977)
  • Lesbians [illegible] Housework
  • Lesbian Mothers' Rights/Support Jean Juillion
  • Women Against Violence and Pornography
  • Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality (WAGE)
  • International Lesbian Solidarity
  • United Santa Cruz [illegible] Gay People
  • [contingent of gay and lesbian people with disabilities]
  • "Death in America"
  • Stonewall Coalition
  • Gay People's Union UC Berkeley
  • Gay Latino Alliance (GALA)
  • [People's food System/Third World Women/Struggle Against Imperialism]
  • "Sissies Arise as Faggot Effeminists Emerging"
  • Gay Liberation through Socialist Revolution
  • Teachers contingent
  • Ministers for Human Rights
  • Men Against Sexist Violence
  • Gay Action
  • Butterfly Brigade
  • Gay People's Union [Stanford]
  • [murder of Robert Hillsborough]
  • Reno
  • Pacific Telephone Employees
  • Ramrod
  • Sacramento contingents (KDAS, Community Church)
  • Council on Religion and the Homosexual
  • Jane Doe Empress XII (Imperial Court)
  • Yacht Club
  • anti-Anita Bryant contingent
  • San Francisco State Gay Academic Union
  • Gay American Indians
  • Gay Health Workers
  • anti-Briggs, pro-teachers contingent
  • "the Joy of Recycling"
  • country and western band
  • Sylvester
  • more anti-Bryant protestors
  • another band 
Part 2 (1978)
  • BACABI (Bay Area Coalition Against the Briggs Amendment)
  • Gay Teachers and School Workers
  • [Berkeley Citizens' Action]
  • "Gays-Workers-Oppressed Peoples-- Unite/Defeat all Attacks"
  • C-3PO
  • Pacific Telephone Employees
  • Radical Women
  • San Francisco State Gay Campus Community
  • "Word Is Out" (Film)
  • the Stud
  • Bay Area Dignity
  • BACABI and more anti-Briggs contingents, including Californians Against the Briggs Initiative, Northern California Alliance
  • Gay Vets
  • [Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club?], carrying "Time Is Running Out/Ask Alice What You Can Do" banner/signs
  • California Now, Inc.
  • [Santa Barbara Lesbians]
  • Hayward Dykes
  • Radical Women
  • Gay Liberation/Youth Liberation
  • Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights
  • Straights for Gay Rights
  • Spartacus (labor rights?)
  • PT&T (Pacific Telegraph and Telephone) Employees
  • Gay Health Workers
  • Gays-Workers-Oppressed People -- Unite: Fight All Attacks
  • Berkeley Socialist Workers 1978 Campaign
  • the Gay Rights Lobby
  • San Francisco Gay Freedom Day marching Band and Twirling Corps
  • State of Oregon
  • Filmmakers Advocating Honest Gay Images in Film
  • Gay People's Union, UC Berkeley
  • Cal Poly GSU
  • EMCP
  • Lilith
  • the Stud
Rights
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, San Francisco CA. Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Source
Harold T. O'Neal collection (2002-03), GLBT Historical Society
Format (physical)
Moving image
Created by
O'Neal, Harold T.
Date
1977-1978
Identifier
glbths_2002-03_223_sc
Views
3266

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