Take a look back at the Gay Pride celebrations in 1987. Long Beach, San Diego and West Hollywood. Gays and lesbians walked the main streets of these communities with pride and style!
!986/87 was when the AIDS epidemic really started to take off. In 1985 I knew no one with AIDS/HIV, but by 1987/88 I had lost half a dozen friends, and It just got worse from there. Every year I was losing 2 to 3 friends and by 1995, all my friends were gone. Their deaths haunt me today.
I remember being in both of these. At 1:53, I'm driving my 1962 El Dorado Biarritz with my best friend Rue Starr for the March on Washington. May he rest in peace. That was a great day! Thank you for posting this
Wonderful! I was there! 1987 was when I traveled to Long Beach from Phoenix to the Gay Pride Celebration and then got a job in the South Bay as the Director of an HIV antibody testing site and education program. So nice to see this video. Thank you. Best wishes from Cambodia.
I look at videos like these and can't help but wonder how many of these brave souls are with us today? shoutout to the survivors of such an awful time. signed, a younger gay ❤️
@Adam B a lot of LGBTQ individuals were MURDERED just for being who they are. It's not right, but it happened. Trying to downplay the tragedies they suffered and fought so hard for is toxic. I'm sure those who have survived are proud and waving their flag with pride. But we cannot forget the past for it has the potential to repeat itself. It's like saying "when slavery ended, everyone got along and they all lived happily ever after"
I was born the year later and for me it looks like everything was so simple and minimalistic. I cringe about todays parades. Too much kitsch. And people act like they are out from the zoo
Yes, my guy and I did celebrate every year back then and young LGBTQ+ folks today don't know all we endured, seeing so many loved ones dying within our community. Everyone must remember the freedoms we fought for. I wasn't easy.
Oh the 80s, when we were just Gay, before the Q and T got added. It'll be another 10/11 years before i discover my local Gay Village and attend a Pride Parade, it seemed almost magical at the time and helped dissolve any shame or guilt a 90s gay boy carried from the bullying in the 80s. Funny how now, my shame and guilt have returned but not from my sexuality, but "my community", whom seemingly have decided to play Water Sports and Scat Games all over the work that was done by the Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of the past, which already included our Trans brothers and sisters.
There was a very telling scene in that Showtime Show about a group of Lesbians - The L-Word, about gay pride parade, a old lady told one of the characters - it's really Gay Shame, that most gays had more shame than pride, that's what was said in a gay themed tv show and non of the characters ever really seemed happy.....
You have to keep in mind that at least a few of these parades were in their early years, and as I recall there were often problems with politics among event organizers.
This is 35 years ago. Think again. I was there in West Hollywood In The 80’s. People got murdered and assaulted, leaving gay bars. It wasn’t uncommon to be yelled profanities by passing cars…. Those who came out then were brave and tough…no Bruce Jenner anywhere to be found.
!986/87 was when the AIDS epidemic really started to take off. In 1985 I knew no one with AIDS/HIV, but by 1987/88 I had lost half a dozen friends, and It just got worse from there. Every year I was losing 2 to 3 friends and by 1995, all my friends were gone. Their deaths haunt me today.
I can't say much, but i feel you
@@alfredschmidt8372 Thank you Buddy... I just don't think this generation has any clue what my generation went through.
@@berjaboy happy pride month bud🏳️🌈❤. Proud being gay
@@berjaboy before 85 had few AIDS cases? from what I really see myself the second half of the 80's and 90's was the AIDS boom
Being gay, can't even imagine what it was like to be alive during that time and dealing with such great loss
Pride looked like so much more fun in the 80s I kinda wish I was there
You might be dead…
@@ronan7695 dude the 80s was only 40 years ago I think I’d just be old
everyone in the entire world hated you for one small thing though
It was fun but we always had AIDS on our minds and all the hate it brought out in people.
I remember being in both of these. At 1:53, I'm driving my 1962 El Dorado Biarritz with my best friend Rue Starr for the March on Washington. May he rest in peace. That was a great day! Thank you for posting this
Why fue he die?
Thank you man..you helped alot the new gay generation to accept themselves
@@youmob2315 be kind to us old guys
Thank you for being there! We appreciate it today.....
Wow I’ve been a guest on Rues show!
To think, while these folks were out having Pride, my parents were in month one of raising a gay guy from an infant.
The men were so hot in the 80s
My first pride parade. What a great day. Friends on floats.
3:44 Those two queens at the end... HILARIOUS 🙌🏾😅🌈
Wonderful! I was there! 1987 was when I traveled to Long Beach from Phoenix to the Gay Pride Celebration and then got a job in the South Bay as the Director of an HIV antibody testing site and education program. So nice to see this video. Thank you. Best wishes from Cambodia.
I look at videos like these and can't help but wonder how many of these brave souls are with us today? shoutout to the survivors of such an awful time. signed, a younger gay ❤️
Luv right back atchya. I'm one of 'em & almost 61 and still here and have, almost all my marbles left :-)
Sadly, alot of these men probably didn't make it 😞
@Adam B that's an example of toxicity
@Adam B don't know people try to be nice
@Adam B a lot of LGBTQ individuals were MURDERED just for being who they are. It's not right, but it happened. Trying to downplay the tragedies they suffered and fought so hard for is toxic. I'm sure those who have survived are proud and waving their flag with pride. But we cannot forget the past for it has the potential to repeat itself.
It's like saying "when slavery ended, everyone got along and they all lived happily ever after"
I’m pretty sure most of them are still alive this was in 1987 so 36 years ago
@stayminty2682 yes but AIDS was rampant in this time
SIGHHHHHHHHHHH.......RICK DONOVAN. R.I.P. And we're ALL STILL HERE!!! BLESS ALLLLL OF US AND VOTE VOTE VOTE THE RETHUGLIKKKLANS OUT THIS NOVEMBER!!!
1987 was the year I turned 21 and the year I came out and went to bars.
Hardly any attendees compared to today’s standard.
If I was a guy, I'd be gay.
How.. do you know?
This was hard to watch - it made me really miss Pride badly. Damn 2020..
Hot bodies in 1987 -> don't necessarily need abs
The 80s were a better time than anything that followed
90s were a close second
It's a completely different world than the one I grew up in.
We didn't have a parade like that and we didn't know there were people like that.
I see the 80s were great even for the LGBTQ
I'm a Straight Ally
Um...the 80s being great for queer people is not true, trans and gay youth being kicked out onto the streets, aids, bullying,
Lezzies playing trumpets. Nothing better!! 🙌🏽
"Really help your back when you Need it" 🤣😂
I was born the year later and for me it looks like everything was so simple and minimalistic. I cringe about todays parades. Too much kitsch. And people act like they are out from the zoo
Well well I was 1 year old when this happened
Is Rick Donovan the gay porn star still alive??!! Hope he is still with us!
I believe he is, but very low-key. He'd definitely have a successful Only Fans page if he started one as an older man today.
@@Scorchy666 how can I find him?
Isso Sim é a verdadeira Parada Gay
Yes, my guy and I did celebrate every year back then and young LGBTQ+ folks today don't know all we endured, seeing so many loved ones dying within our community. Everyone must remember the freedoms we fought for. I wasn't easy.
01:23 queen mary
when pride was classy
Ha. 4:04 was big Dk Rick Donovan.
big and weak….
Thanks for uploading this. Hope we can see the whole thing uploaded soon :)
That was a SNACK parade, baby!
Oh the 80s, when we were just Gay, before the Q and T got added.
It'll be another 10/11 years before i discover my local Gay Village and attend a Pride Parade, it seemed almost magical at the time and helped dissolve any shame or guilt a 90s gay boy carried from the bullying in the 80s.
Funny how now, my shame and guilt have returned but not from my sexuality, but "my community", whom seemingly have decided to play Water Sports and Scat Games all over the work that was done by the Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of the past, which already included our Trans brothers and sisters.
this reminds me of tv show pose ... but i guess not much of representing ppl of colour back then ...
Why do white people always talk about balck people stop it were not victims to feel sorry for
@@david-lm7iu i dunno i ain't white either lol
Wow! It looks so much fun and real. 21st century turned something pure into a false positivity and propaganda. I wish I’d be there at the 80s and 90s
Hello ,, I'm from California 40 yrs old single gay,, are you?????
Shit..
From yestergayTV, if we'd announce the first year we came out. I'd be participating in the senior 'elderpride' parade.
Now I may be just guessing here….but I think everyone there was gay
Nah I'm sure there's the usual str8s "allies" being creeps there
On roller skates bitch!!!!!!!! 🥰😝🥰😝🥰😝
😍🌈❤
rick donovan, interviewed ??? loooks like him
You are making a documentary for Long Beach?
Hello, I am interested in acquiring some of your videos. Could you give me any contact to write to you? Thank you
Send this video to Steven anderson 😂
Hello: I love this collage. Is there any permission or licensing fees to use in a short video?
que bonita marcha, ahora solo muchos solo se dedican a insultar a los demas, rayar paredes
1:18 Rick "Humongous" Donovan.
*?
I was just starting kindergarten that year
Ok boomer
Sorry that was mean...
@@hiimryan2388 Lol you're an idiot, boomers are people born between 1945-1965. This was in 1987.
Long beach here we come to 🍾
I wonder how many have died of AIDS😔?
More than you would EVERRRRRRRR be able to endure being told. TRUST ME.
all these people are probably dead now
Nope! Some of us are still here. I was infected with HIV in 1986 and I'm still here.
Not really, this was 1987, most of them are probably in their 50s or 60s. Some of them probably died but the majority would still be alive.
Many are…but many of us that were there are still here.
There was a very telling scene in that Showtime Show about a group of Lesbians - The L-Word, about gay pride parade, a old lady told one of the characters - it's really Gay Shame, that most gays had more shame than pride, that's what was said in a gay themed tv show and non of the characters ever really seemed happy.....
The GAYS! 🥵😡🤬👠🎨💄
WHAT.... The fuck..... Oh man, looks like Hollywood was always hollyWEIRD!
Split shorts and other things, defining tradition
Miss arizona do you want us to bring you that
Miss arizona you remember this
Yes i do remember
song at 03:11 ?
@@sansomdela
Thanks
@@sansomdela
Thanks
God I miss those days!!
It looks awful,Disney does pride. European pride marches are better
You have to keep in mind that at least a few of these parades were in their early years, and as I recall there were often problems with politics among event organizers.
Europe back in these days? Doubt they had as many and conservative compared.
This is 35 years ago. Think again. I was there in West Hollywood In The 80’s. People got murdered and assaulted, leaving gay bars. It wasn’t uncommon to be yelled profanities by passing cars…. Those who came out then were brave and tough…no Bruce Jenner anywhere to be found.
Oscar Wilde called it the Love which dare not speak its name. Nowadays it's the Love that never bleeding shuts up
Women and men make babies. Not two men or teo women.
Julie Howe shut up u fucking clown
Go, make some babies then
Leave teo women alone!
Go fuck yourself
Ik what the guy said is homophobic dude, but I are being a little rude