To mark the 50th anniversary of Pride, gettyarchive director bob_ahern and gettyimages curator shawn_waldron spoke to theadvocatemag, sharing images of the movement from across the decades. Follow our bio link for the full article. Here, Shawn discusses 28 June 1970, seen in this picture by Fred McDarrah, chief photographer for The Village Voice. What is now the largest event of its kind in the world began in 1970 to mark the one year anniversary of the Stonewall Riot. The first pride, known as the Christopher Street Liberation March, featured a group of around 2,000 people (the exact number is unknown and open to interpretation) traveling from Christopher Street to Central Park along Sixth Avenue. In the early years, the march was not without risk—one attendee said the group’s pace increased considerably once they left the safer confines of Greenwich Village. The Stonewall Riots provided a clear point of demarcation in the struggle for LGBTQI equality; as a historical event it is a ...