These Are the Moments We Treasure. Photos by Fred W. McDarrah

The first Stonewall anniversary march, held on June 28, 1970, was organized by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, led by Foster Gunnison and Craig Rodwell.

Fred W. McDarrah's iconic photos are being reissued. You can help bring the book to life. Read more below.

Photo: The first Stonewall anniversary march, held on June 28, 1970, was organized by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, led by Foster Gunnison and Craig Rodwell.

PRIDE: Photographs After Stonewall
A new edition of Fred W. McDarrah's classic book on the gay community.

Fifty years ago this coming June, the Stonewall uprising occurred in Greenwich Village — an event that marked the coming-out of New York’s gay community and a refusal by gays to accept underground status that was as important in its way as the Montgomery bus boycott was to the civil rights movement. As a direct outcome of Stonewall, gay pride marches were held in 1970 in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.

In Central Park after the march, June 28, 1970.

The ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in that period, and therefore of a signal moment in gay culture, was the late Fred W. McDarrah, the first staff photographer and first picture editor of the legendary Village Voice. In a recent appreciation of the man and his work in The New York Times, "He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice", Dwight Garner wrote: “McDarrah had an inflamed curiosity, great feelers and an ability to capture liquid moments. He also had hustle.”

At the Gay Pride March, June 27, 1971.

Twenty-five years ago, to mark Stonewall's 25th anniversary, McDarrah brought out a work that became a classic: Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today. That book has long been out of print. Now, scanning from original negatives, OR Books has lovingly re-set and re-designed the book, newly entitled Pride. This edition also includes a number of photographs not in the original and available nowhere else.

June 24, 1973

The forthcoming edition of Pride features a new foreword by Hilton Als (the New Yorker critic, who got his first job from McDarrah) and essays by Allen Ginsberg and Jill Johnston. Its portraits of people and setting are unique, but as Hilton Als puts it, McDarrah deserves a lasting place in New York's alternative history not only for his documentation of a world in transformation, but for his work as "an agent of change himself."

June 29, 1975.

Help spread the word about this exciting publication, an essential and irreplaceable document — and receive an advance copy of Pride's new edition, in plenty of time to toast a half century of progress since Stonewall.

June 27, 1982

The 8 x 10" paperback is 192 pages, filled with black-and-white photographs available nowhere else. They are working hard to finish the book in time for shipping in early December.

Actor, singer, and drag performer Divine, photographed in his New York penthouse, February 28, 1980.

Publisher OR Books has been hailed as "a radical, exciting response to Amazonian hegemony" (Dazed), "one of the most original publishers in the U.S." (Flavorwire), "a publisher of dissident voices" (Book Culture), and also been damned as a hotbed of communist propaganda, etc. We've been around since 1989, and pride ourselves on our progressive outlook in all things.