That march, described as “Homosexuals March for Equal Rights” by the New York Times, is notable as a response to the singer Anita Bryant and her anti-LGBTQI+ campaign “Save Our Children.” Indeed, in the digitized film above – scanned by our skilled media conservators in the Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Department – we see signage that pokes fun at Bryant and her commercials for Florida Orange juice. Among Richard’s things from his time as a Rutgers undergrad is a collection of Super8 films, one of which is an excellent document of the 1977 NYC “Gay Rally.”
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Recent additions to the Downtown Collection are the papers of Richard Berkowitz, co-author of the provocative safe sex manual How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach and subject of the documentary film Sex Positive. From the wildness of the 1970s to the devastating AIDS crisis that would kill millions in the decades that followed, the lives of individuals who loved freely and fought furiously for human rights are documented in letters, journals, art, audiovisual materials, digital objects, and ephemera archived the library’s vast repositories. NYU Special Collections tells the story of that history in its seminal D ownt own Collectio n, which chronicles the countercultural movements that characterized Lower Manhattan in the latter half of the 20th Century. Today also happens to be the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the birth of the fiery gay liberation movement that followed.
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If you haven’t guessed from the rainbow flags that proudly flap around the city, this weekend is the NYC Pride Parade, a celebration of the LGBTQI+ community and its triumphs. Gay Rally, 1977 Richard Berkowitz Papers MSS 421 421.0019, Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.