Stonewall March
						In 1970 there was the birth of a movement that would take the form of a protest march in the streets of New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. This event, known as the Stonewall March, burgeoning out of the Stonewall riots, was the first national declaration of gay solidarity and protest against a long history of civil discrimination and police brutality toward gays. This march would help open the doors for future protest marches, catapulting gay celebration of identity and solidarity from protest to pride in the years to come. The marches that would follow we've come to know as the “Gay Pride Parade"
						The first San Francisco Gay Pride Parade was on June 27, 1970, and was known as the Gay Freedom Marches that started off by a very small group of people. Pioneered by individuals who led the march, such as S.I.R. (Society for Individual Rights), activist Ray Broshears, Mark Mulleian and his lover Ron Raz, along with sixty other people, started to march through the downtown streets of San Francisco as they shouted "Off the sidewalks and into the streets!", as a flood of spectators lined the sidewalks to watch. Slowly people started to join into the march that ended up with two thousand people. This would be the beginning of greater marches that would bring about gay awareness in our nation. Through the 1970s The protest would grow and soon would be known as the Gay Freedom Marches and later the Gay Pride March, now known as the Gay Pride Parade.
	G. Mark Mulleian at Age 25		Photo by Brian Jennings 1973