In 1970, one year after the legendary first brick shattered the windows of the Stonewall Inn, thousands took to the streets of Lower Manhattan to participate in the Christopher Street Liberation Day March — an event that would later be remembered as the inaugural annual New York City Pride March. After Stonewall, many young activists began discussing replacing the Reminder Day protests with an annual demonstration to commemorate the uprising. Several of these conversations were spearheaded by Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop owner Craig Rodwell and members of the nascent Gay Liberation Front (GLF), a group that proudly reclaimed queer identifying terms. In late 1969, at the annual Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations, Rodwell and Ellen Broidy of New York University’s Student Homophile League proposed holding a demonstration on the last weekend in June to honor the liberation of Stonewall and Christopher Street. Following a majority vote in favor, the Christopher Stree...