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In 2012, it became the first parade in which LGBT military personnel were allowed to march in uniform. The annual parade - this year’s is next Saturday - is the centerpiece of a weekend festival that now draws an estimated 200,000 people. “So for a relatively small city like San Diego to have one in 1974 is really quite astonishing.” “In 1970, there were parades in big cities like Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Chicago,” Faderman said. In 1974, an impromptu march downtown drew about 200 people, some of them wearing bags over their heads, and a year later organizers got a permit and held a parade. The center is partnering with Lambda Archives, a non-profit repository of books, newspaper clippings, oral histories, posters, artwork and other LGBT memorabilia that dates to the early 1970s.įaderman, the author of a dozen books, has used the archives before, but combing through them this time she was struck by San Diego’s early involvement in activism, belying its reputation as a conservative, military town.įor example, San Diego was one of the first cities to have a gay-pride parade, she said.