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LA Pride Parade and Village in Los Angeles
LA Pride, produced by the Christopher Street West Association since 1970, combines a parade through Los Angeles with a ticketed festival village of music stages and vendor booths, typically held the second weekend of June. It was founded by Rev. Troy Perry, Rev. Bob Humphries, and Morris Kight specifically to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York.
In 1970, a year after police raided New York's Stonewall Inn and touched off days of resistance that came to symbolize the start of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, three Los Angeles organizers, Rev.