13 Facts About Fred Sargeant

Frederic Andre Sargeant was born on July 29,1948 and is a French-American gay rights activist and a former lieutenant with the Stamford, Connecticut Police Department.

Fred Sargeant participated in each of the nights of the 1969 Stonewall riots and was one of the four co-founders of the first NYC Pride March march in Manhattan in 1970.

Fred Sargeant was vice-chairman of the Homophile Youth Movement at the time.

The bookshop was a gathering place for young gay activists, and soon Fred Sargeant was managing the store and had become an active member of the Homophile Youth Movement, which operated out of it.

At dawn, the couple went back to their apartment, where Rodwell and Fred Sargeant began writing the first of many leaflets calling for the gay community to seize the moment and stand up to the corrupt police and the mafia who controlled their neighborhoods.

At the conference, Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes of the lesbian activist group Lavender Menace joined Rodwell and Fred Sargeant in proposing the following resolution:.

Fred Sargeant protested at the Burlington VT Pride march and Outright fire truck pull in 2022, carrying a sign containing the words "Black Face" and "Woman Face" crossed out in red.

Fred Sargeant claimed to have been physically assaulted at the event.

Fred Sargeant appeared in the 2011 Peabody Award winning documentary film, Stonewall Uprising.

Fred Sargeant wrote the foreword to the 2019 book The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets, by Gayle E Pitman.

Fred Sargeant appeared as a historic character in the 2022 graphic history The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights, by Archie Bongiovanni.

In 2014, at the 44th annual NYC Pride March, Fred Sargeant was honored as one of the founders of Gay Pride.

On June 18,2019, Fred Sargeant received an honorary award at the Association des Journalists LGBTQI Cote D'or in Paris, France.