[Ads-l] "Pride" (1974)

[Ben Zimmer]

Thanks, Garson (and Jesse). I snuck the 1971 Austin Statesman cite into my
Wall St. Journal column this week on "pride":

https://on.wsj.com/3J61VQ6

--bgz

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 10:59 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here is an instance of the shortened form “Pride Week” in a headline
> in June 1971.
>
> Date: June 24, 1971:
> Newspaper: The Austin Statesman
> Newspaper Location: Austin, Texas
> Article: Pride Week Set By Gay Libbers
> Quote Page A10
> Database: ProQuest
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Pride Week Set By Gay Libbers
>
> Austin Gay Liberation Front (GLF) is planning weekend activities for
> more than 500 people it says will be in town to celebrate Gay Pride
> Week which ends June 27.
> [End excerpt]
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 7:15 AM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > 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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