![]() They’d play their instruments and march down the street with traffic looking like it was coming right at them. John Orlando, 70, used to live in NYC and said he remembered going to the Stonewall Inn and marching in the first pride parades.Īfter coming to Denver, he joined the Mile High Freedom Band, and said in early pride parades the police would only block one side of Colfax Avenue. ![]() The first pride parade occurred a few years after Stonewall in New York City, and spread to become a national movement. The event sparked the beginning of the modern gay civil rights movement and inspired activism all across the country, including in Denver. This year’s parade was in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, when patrons at the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York City, tired of being harassed, fought back against police trying to arrest them. Thousands of people gathered in downtown Denver on Sunday morning to watch the Denver Pride Parade that marched from Cheesman Park down Colfax Avenue to the steps of the rainbow-flag-emblazoned capitol building. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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