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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. ,

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GAY BARS IN CLEVELAND

PRIDE IN CLEVELAND has been celebrated by the cy’s LGBTQ muny sce the early 1970s. The gay muny Cleveland the 1970s was nnecte... * cleveland lgbt history *

"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.

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”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. 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.

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