Brenda Howard

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Brenda Howard (December 24, 1946 – June 28, 2005) was a bisexual activist and sex-positive feminist, and was an important figure in the modern LGBT rights movement.

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Howard was a leader of the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance in the early post-Stonewall era and a founder of the New York Area Bisexual Network.

She is also known as the "the Mother of Pride", for her work in coordinating the first month anniversary rally and then the "Christopher Street Liberation Day March" to commemorate the first year anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Howard also originated the idea for a week-long series of events around Pride Day which became the genesis of the annual LGBT Pride celebrations that are now held around the world every June.

Howard was born in the Bronx and grew up in Syosset LI. She graduated from Syosset High School and from Borough of Manhattan Community College with an AAS degree in Nursing.

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The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them "A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be."

—Tom Limoncelli, in BiSquish, July 27, 2005

Only a handful of activists in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement were there at Stonewall and never stopped.

—Andy Humm describing Brenda Howard in Gay City News August 11-17, 2005

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