Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee
Variant namesThe Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee was the original organizer, starting in 1970, of the New York Gay Pride March and Rally. At first a committee of representatives from various organizations, they later became fully independent. They continued to be the organizers until replaced by Heritage of Pride in 1984.
From the description of Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee records, 1970-1979, 1973-1974 (bulk). (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155407535
Writer, gay rights activist, and professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Officer of the Gay Activists Alliance (1970), Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (1976) and cofounder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (1985), Kantrowitz is the author of the memoir Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay (1977) and many essays in the gay press.
From the guide to the Arnie Kantrowitz papers, 1958-1995, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)
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| associatedWith | Evans, Arthur | person |
| associatedWith | Gay Academic Union. New York Chapter | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Gay Activists Alliance | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Gay Activists Alliance (New York, N.Y.) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (New York, N.Y.) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Heymont, George | person |
| associatedWith | Kantrowitz, Arnie, 1940- | person |
| associatedWith | Mass, Lawrence, 1946- | person |
| associatedWith | Owles, Jim | person |
| associatedWith | Owles, Jim. | person |
| associatedWith | Preston, John | person |
| associatedWith | Russo, Vito | person |
| associatedWith | Sadownick, Douglas | person |
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| Gay liberation movement |
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| Gay pride parades |
| Gay rights |
| Gays |
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| Homosexuality |
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| Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969 |
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Active 1973
Active 1986
