“Oh my goodness,” she remembers thinking. Marj McCann, a 25 year old office manager in Center City, told Philadelphia Magazine that she had watched the marchers from behind a trash can across from Independence Hall at that first march.
The last one was in 1969, right after the Stonewall Riots, for which they set the stage. These became the Annual Reminder marches. The 1965 protest was one of the first organized protests for gay and lesbian rights. Left: 1965 protest for gay and lesbian rights at Independence Hall.
