Pride

From the FOX 5 DC archives, gay rights activist Frank Kameny talked about his decades of fighting for gay rights in Washington D.C., from picketing the White House in 1965 to the founding of the Gay Task Force in 1973 into the Aids crisis.

On Halloween night in 1991, the now-iconic High Heel Race along 17th Street Street was not supposed to take place after permits were turned down. But members of the gay community gathered to hold the race anyway -- prompting the arrests of six men. D.C. police was accused of using excessive force in the arrests, and an investigation followed. D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt apologized following the incident.

A look back at 1992's Gay Pride Parade and Festival in Washington, D.C.

Frank Kameny and other gay rights activists in D.C. pressured the Council to repeal a law that forbid sodomy between consenting adults. The law was repealed in April of 1993.

Unity, community and pride was the focus of the Gay Pride Parade in Northwest DC on June 5, 1994.

2,000 riders biked from Raleigh to D.C. in 1997 to raise money for Food & Friends and the Whitman-Walker Clinic.

On a rainy day in 1997, over a hundred people gathered in Dupont Circle to march against hate crimes committed against gay and trans people.

Tens of thousands gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. for the Capital Pride Festival on June 7, 1998.

In October of 1998, DC Mayor Marion Barry was retiring from his second stint in office. Founder of the D.C. gay rights movement Frank Kameny spoke at a tribute for Barry -- focusing on Barry's support for gay rights throughout his political career.

Every year in D.C. on the Tuesday before Halloween, thousands of revelers head to 17th Street for the annual high heel race. From our archives, see some of the action from October 2007.