[Ads-l] "Pride" (1974)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Slightly earlier:

1973 _Lavender Woman_ (Chicago) June 2/1 A decision was made last Monday night at the CLL meeting NOT to sign the lease for a center located at 1015 W. Armitage in Chicago's Sheffield area. Unfortunately, the news that the center would be open for PRIDE week had already spread through the community.... If you are in Chicago for LESBIAN PRIDE WEEK andyou [sic] need to get in touch with the lezzie community, call the Women's Center.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 06:58:06AM -0400, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> OED3's entry for "pride" includes sense 6b:
> 
> ---
> b. Any of various public events (often including a march or parade)
> intended to promote the interests and rights of the LGBT community, and to
> celebrate LGBT identities, culture, and experience. Frequently attributive
> and with capital initials. Cf. earlier _gay pride_ at _gay_ adj., adv., and
> n. Compounds 2c.
> ---
> 
> The earliest citation given is from the Boston-based newspaper Gay
> Community News from 1978 (in an item about "Pride '78"). That same
> newspaper has examples of "Pride" in the phrase "Pride Week" in headlines
> going back to 1974.
> 
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> https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews0143gayc/page/2/mode/2up
> Gay Community News, Apr. 20, 1974, p. 2 (headline)
> Pride Week [continuation of article headlined "Gay Pride Week" on p. 1]
> ---
> https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews0145gayc/mode/2up
> Gay Community News, May 4, 1974, p. 1 (headline)
> Pride Week Plans
> ---
> https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews0150gayc/page/2/mode/2up
> Gay Community News, June 1, 1974, p. 2 (headline)
> Pride Week Plans Detailed
> ---
> https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews0151gayc/page/10/mode/2up
> Gay Community News, June 15, 1974, p. 10 (headline)
> Pride week continues: Another parade, zaps, forums, rhino walls & art.
> ---
> 
> "Pride week" also appears in lowercase in a 1976 article:
> 
> ---
> https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews0402gayc/page/12/mode/2up
> Gay Community News, July 10, 1976, p. 13, col. 1
> Loretta Lotman and James Saslow, ex-Boston New York writers, have joined
> with Regina Kahney, GCN writer, to put on a gay comedy at the Glines
> Theatre in New York for pride week.
> ---
> 
> Also, perhaps worthy of a bracketed citation, a gay-rights group was
> founded in Los Angeles in 1966 under the name Personal Rights in Defense
> and Education, or PRIDE for short. The PRIDE Newsletter (which would later
> evolve into the magazine The Advocate) carried news in its February 1967
> issue of a "PRIDE demonstration" to protest a raid of the Black Cat Tavern
> in L.A.'s Silver Lake neighborhood. The newsletter is reproduced here:
> 
> https://www.onearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/one-archives-foundation-black-cat-riots.pdf
> 
> --bgz
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