This photo shows a collective of disabled gay activists at the 1977 San Francisco Pride Parade.
These quotes have been condensed for clarity and space. We asked Fellman to talk about five lesser-known but still seminal photos across Pride celebrations in San Francisco in context of the parade's revolutionary origins.
Pride, throughout its history, sought not just to spread awareness of the joys and tragedies of the LGBT experience, but to make the presence of queer and trans people felt in a world that was not quite built for them.Īnd while Pride parades have been canceled in San Francisco this year, now's as good a time as any to revisit Prides of the past and examine their significance and relevance in 2021 - a period in which conversations over rainbow capitalism and police presence at Pride celebrations have intensified. With moments of joy such as theirs come grief and strife, codified through legislation, political negligence and systemic discrimination. (This was months before Proposition 8 passed in California, which again banned gay marriage in the state until 2013.) Martin and Lyon first wed in 2004 and then again in 2008 after a state Supreme Court decision overturned statutes banning same-sex marriage for violating the California Constitution. You may know them better as the first same-sex couple to be married in San Francisco - twice. The founders of the latter group, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, spent two generations fighting for LGBT equality in San Francisco - and lived long enough to celebrate one significant victory: marriage equality.