The accompanying stage show featured drag queen and transgender performers, who were also pivotal beforehand in helping to raise money and promote the parade at the gay bars where they regularly entertained. The parade route ran from 89th to 75th Streets along 37th Avenue, which was painted with a lavender line. The first Queens Pride Parade and Multicultural Festival took place on Sunday, June 6, 1993, and an estimated 10,000 people attended.
that if they became visible, they would pay a price.”
Dromm later recalled that some bar owners were resistant, “It was a very quiet lesbian and gay community - a large one but not a very visible one. At the time, police would frequently raid gay bars and harass the. Co-chaired by Dromm and Cuban-born LGBT rights activist Maritza Martinez, QLGPC canvassed neighborhood gay bars for donations and support. Stories and photos about gay pride from The Colorado Sun, a membership-supported journalism outlet. When did Pride Month begin The Stonewall Uprising took place on June 28, 1969, in New York City.
On November 22, 1992, the initial planning meeting was held in Dromm’s Flushing apartment, and the formation of the Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee (QLGPC) followed soon after at a meeting of Queens Gays and Lesbians United (Q-GLU).
