Bob Ahern, the Director of the Getty Images archive, is the caretaker of a vast collection of LGBTQ history. While some of the most famous photos from queer history are part of the archive, there is also an untold number of lesser-known pictures that haven’t been displayed publicly.
Ahern is sharing some of his favorite photos with LGBTQ Nation for pride month. Fifty years after the first pride parade, festivals nationwide have been canceled, but a look back through the years at parades from around the country proves one important thing… We will persevere and we will win equality.
Related: Pride in Pictures: I felt like I was being represented
Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970
Dated June 28, 1970 this photo of the first Stonewall anniversary was taken in by photographer Fred McDarrah, the then Director of Photography for the Village Voice magazine. McDarrah, who’s regular beat was covering the artists, musicians and the movers and shakers of underground New York in the ’60s had been present at the Stonewall riots, documenting the scene through just a handful of pictures. He would go on to chronicle the changing faces of gay life in New York – from the early marches to the more celebratory parades of the 1980s.
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