![]() The week ends at Seattle Center where “fewer than 50 happy gay individuals-including a bare-chested Neth, draped in pearls, wearing cutoffs and a white floppy hat–danced with frenzied joy around the International Fountain,” Seattle Weekly reports. Seattle gay rights activist David Neth takes the lead organizing Seattle’s first Pride Week. And though there’s plenty of work left to do, our city’s made some serious progress in the last half-century. Our city’s Pride March has come a long way, from a small group of pioneers to a massive parade that draws in thousands of people. Although Seattle’s first Pride celebration was small, it was early, happening four years after inaugural Pride marches in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, among others, led the Stonewall riots in New York City and helped spark the fight for LGBTQ+ equality. Seattle celebrated our very first Pride Week in 1974 - five years after trans and gay rights activists Marsha P.
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