Christopher Street Liberation Day March

Come to My Window

A wonderful exhibit is currently on display at the LGBT Center in NYC. It is called "A View From My Window: The Christopher Street Liberation Day March 1970-1984," and it features photographs of the NYC Pride March spanning fourteen years. For the uninitiated, our NYC Pride March was originally called the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, and the last Sunday in June recognized as Christopher Street Liberation Day.

Although it would seem to us today the inevitability that the Stonewall Rebellion would mark the beginning of the modern Gay Rights Movement, had it not been for the swift and smart actions of gay and lesbian activists, the event might've been forgotten, as just an isolated occurrence with little of no historical relevance. Luckily for us immediately after Stonewall, these courageous and visionary activists banded together to form the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, to ensure that the first anniversary of that fateful night on June 27th, 1969 would be commemorated. They ingeniously decided to do this with a march and rally, a concept which was quickly replicated in cities across the nation (see Reverend Troy Perry and the MCC posted on July 3, 2007 for information on the Los Angeles Pride March). Today LGBT Pride Marches draw millions in cities all over the world.

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A View from My Window: Christopher Street Liberation Day March 1970-1984
Photographs by Suzanne Poli
When: June 4 - August 17, 2007
Where: LGBT Center
208 W 13th Street
New York, NY 10011

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For more information about Christopher Street please go to:

http://www.planetout.com/news/history/archive/christopher.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0425,hoffman,54512,1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Street
http://www.gaycenter.org/resources/museum
http://www.suzannepoli.com/site/home.php?b=10&bd=10_0&sbID=10&mID=2
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=120&aid=70925