Day 30 of LGBTQ History Month
The first year that the San Jose City Council passed a resolution for a Gay Pride Proclamation was in 1978. The resolution generated such a tremendous backlash among the city’s Christian conservative population that the council rescinded their vote when 800 opponents show up at City Hall. Unbelievably, it would take 23 years before the full city council would again issue such a proclamation when Councilmember Ken Yeager introduced it in 2001.