PRIDE IN CLEVELAND has been celebrated by the cy’s LGBTQ muny sce the early 1970s. The gay muny Cleveland the 1970s was nnecte...
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GAY BARS IN CLEVELAND
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"That’s how a 1975 article High Gear, a legendary Cleveland LGBTQ+ publitn, scribed the “send annual Gay Pri Celebratn. ” A scriptn of the day’s events followed:“While nothg was done the way of a para, or mass meetgs Public Square, a very succsful Friday night Coffeehoe, and a Gay Pri Piic at, where else?
”Nothg exists prt about that first Pri, which lol LGBTQ+ elrs say was effectively a bunch of people gatherg at lol gay bars.
”In 1975, the LGBT Communy Center of Greater Cleveland did not yet exist, but a fledglg activist group at Cleveland State Universy soon beme GEAR (Gay Edutnal and Awarens Rourc). M., Brecksville-Broadview Heights Middle School, 6376 Mill Road, Broadview HeightsWhen a speaker at a 2021 Veteran’s Day public event the Cuyahoga County sister ci of Brecksville and Broadview Heights veered sudnly off-script to make some cidly homophobic remarks wh schoolchildren attendance, some atten were unrstandably offend.
GAY COMMUNITY
GAY BARS IN CLEVEAND have been existence sce at least the 1940s and have served as important s for the cy’s LGBTQ muny to socialize, anize, and distribute rmatn and rourc. , * cleveland lgbt history *
The gay muny Cleveland the 1970s was nnected to the larger gay liberatn movement growg the Uned Stat, which was propelled by the Stonewall Rt New York Cy 1969. 1970 to memorate the gay, lbian, and transgenr people who risted their ntued harassment and discrimatn by the police at Stonewall. Cleveland’s gay muny the 1970s anized self orr to do the same.
After the early years of Pri Cleveland the 1970s sponsored by numero anizatns, gay muny members and anizers Cleveland elected to jo the larger Pri celebratns Columb, Oh through the 1980s. The ncellatn led to the anizatn of Pri the CLE by the LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND which anized celebratns 2016 and 2017 before the anizatns rned 2018. The gay muny publitn HIGH GEAR claimed that the first Gay Pri March Cleveland took place July 1972 wh 70 atten.
However, the stunt newspaper at CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, The Observer, claimed that the Gay Pri March that took place on September 15, 1973 was the first event of s kd Cleveland. On September 15, the Gay Activists Alliance sponsored a Gay Pri March that began outsi of a gay bar lled “The Change” and moved along Euclid Avenue to a rally Public Square. There was a hope that around two-hundred people would be attendance, but only forty attend the march, which anizers attributed to fear by many the gay muny that they would be regnized and ostracized.