Full filmed news report by producer Pat Rocco at the 1969 March (above)
Watch as a new chant is coined... saying it loud.
"WE'RE GAY AND WE'RE PROUD"
Watch as a new chant is coined... saying it loud.
"WE'RE GAY AND WE'RE PROUD"
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At serious personal risks, the first mass demonstrators take to the streets: In this video of a nighttime picket down Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, producer Pat Rocco speaks with Rev. Troy Perry and several protestors, including Rand Schrader (future Gay Rights Activist and L.A. Municipal Court Judge) and men from the Gay Liberation Front and the United States Mission.
At the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas, Pat Rocco interviews protestors Cliff Letieri and Al Lewis. On Vine Street, under the Huntington Harper Theater (now The Montalban Theater), Rocco again speaks to Rev. Perry, attorney Walter Culpepper, and Jim Kepner, as well interviews passers-by regarding gay rights.
At the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas, Pat Rocco interviews protestors Cliff Letieri and Al Lewis. On Vine Street, under the Huntington Harper Theater (now The Montalban Theater), Rocco again speaks to Rev. Perry, attorney Walter Culpepper, and Jim Kepner, as well interviews passers-by regarding gay rights.
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As Troy mentioned in his 2017 LA PRIDE Resist March speech, these people were taking great risk to publicly take a stand::
"If you were a member of our community, you could not hold a job without fear of being fired. Landlords could refuse to rent you an apartment or a house. You could have your application for credit denied. You could have been denied insurance. All branches of the US armed forces discriminated against you... You could be barred from teaching, from practicing law, for being a doctor of medicine, or in some states for even driving a cab". |
* This video is provided to Rainbow Advocacy courtesy of producer Pat Rocco and Bizarre Productions through UCLA Television Archives. Copyright © 1969 Bizarre Productions. All rights reserved.
