Pride in Morningside Heights

Name: Photography Exhibition: Into the Streets! New York City’s Pride March 1975 – 1976
Start: 2025-05-08
End: 2025-05-08
Location: Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Morningside Area Alliance member organizations put a spotlight on LGBTQIA + community, issues, and the future.

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08 May 2025

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Photography Exhibition: Into the Streets! New York City’s Pride March 1975 – 1976Repeating Event

Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Hispanic Society of America,3741 Broadway, New York, NY 10032

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Photography Exhibition: Into the Streets! New York City’s Pride March 1975 – 1976

“Out of the Closets! Into the Streets!: New York City’s Pride March, 1975-1976” opens to the public on May 8. Featuring 20 photographs by internationally-recognized multi-media artist @franciscoalvaradojuarez, this exhibition provides a window into the world of New York City’s early Pride marches, known at the time as the “Christopher Street Liberation Day March.” The marches served as a vital call for increased queer visibility at a time when New York still enforced so-called “sodomy laws” that targeted the LGBTQ+ community. Alvarado Juárez’s photos of the 1975 and 1976 marches showcase the racial and ethnic diversity of the early Pride parades and reveal the nuanced bonds of kinship formed among marchers from disparate backgrounds. Continuing the Hispanic Society’s commitment to exhibiting work by artists active in the local community, “Out of the Closets! Into the Streets!” constitutes the second installment of...

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