As he passed by, the people lining the streets whistled and clapped and screamed themselves hoarse.īut all this hullabaloo was not, as it turned out, for the famous doctor it was for a diminutive middle-aged woman marching just in front of him. Spock, one of the most influential figures in America, joining their ranks. Those who did were so hopped up on adrenaline and fear that the fifty-block route, from the West Village to Central Park, took them half as long as anticipated afterward, they jokingly called it the Christopher Street Liberation Day Run. Two years earlier, when the march was held for the first time, its organizers had worried that no one would come. Still, even by his standards, joining the Christopher Street crowd was a radical act. Although he had risen to fame as a pediatrician, Spock was almost as well known for his support of left-wing causes-from legalizing abortion to ending the Vietnam War-as he was for “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” which had already sold more than ten million copies. Benjamin Spock was walking uptown with the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, the scrappier, more revolutionary precursor to the New York City Pride Parade. The crowd along Sixth Avenue was losing its mind.
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