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LEARN MORE ABOUT OKC GAY PRIDE
”Small gay pri celebratns Oklahoma Cy started the 1970s and grew the 1980s, culmatg to the first lol pri para 1987 wh a few hundred people, Kerri said. The para began as a way to crease gay visibily and addrs issu such as the HIV/AIDS epimic and then, the Oklahoma Cy para has honored lol LGBT lears and activists, Kerri said. “When you've got 80, 000 people lg 39th Street, that's more than jt gay, lbian, transgenr Oklahomans, ” he said.
Add the recent revotn of certa feral LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng) workplace protectns, and is no wonr OKC Pri’s theme for s 30th anniversary celebratn is “30 years of ristance. OKC Pri Week returns Friday-Sunday wh ftival celebratns 39th District, Oklahoma Cy’s historilly gay hub, which clus bars, bs and church found along NW 39th Street between N. Classen Boulevard and through the strip of historilly gay bs the 39th District to the tersectn of NW 39th Street and N.
Gay Oklahoma tle. The earlit official history of gay pri celebratns Oklahoma Cy is a ltle murky. A June 22, 1988, Oklahoma Gazette story tailg the first official march reported Gay Pri Week celebratns had been observed lolly sce 1977, which uld mean Pri has been celebrated OKC for at least 40 years.