Photos and documentatn of people at area gay events before the 1970s are fairly rare, so much of what we know om an amalgamatn of diari, oral histori, stori passed down and clu left behd.
Contents:
- GAY IOWA
- HISTORY HAPPENGS: GAY HISTORY HARD TO TRACK CEDAR RAPIDS
- GAY PILOTS BRG LOVE OF AVIATN TO HELP KICK OFF PRI MONTH CEDAR RAPIDS
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CEDAR RAPIDS
GAY IOWA
Iowa gay tourism: At you n fd the rmatn you need for your vatns Iowa. * cedar rapids gay pride *
We hosted Aequalas Media 2021 as they filmed two shows cludg Joe Eats World and The Gaytn Travel Show wh host Ravi Roth - learn more here. Pl, they wrote about Cedar Rapids Gaytn Magaze - The Fun, Friendly, and Culturally Interactive Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Longtime NewBo rint Mel Andrga sat atop a nvertible wh a sash bearg his full name — an act that most gay rints would not have nsired 30 years ago.
“When we me to Cedar Rapids 1990, we asked where the gay anizatns were. ” The founrs of Legn Arts at CSPS helped start the Gay and Lbian Rource Center at the old fire statn NewBo 1992, a time when the only anizatns that openly worked wh the muny were medil relief anizatns at the height of the AIDS epimic. To those g to jo the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, which is holdg a fly- at The Eastern Iowa Airport, Pri means havg a voice.
“Y, I’m a cisgenr gay man, but I’m also a son, brother, nephew, -worker, iend and ally, ” he said. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Drag Queen Onga and members of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn wave to para atten Saturday durg the Cedar Rapids Pri Para. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn member Stt Chana of Phoenix, Ariz., holds up an flatable airplane Saturday before the Cedar Rapids Pri Para.
HISTORY HAPPENGS: GAY HISTORY HARD TO TRACK CEDAR RAPIDS
Don’t miss the “Cedar Rapids” episo on The Gaytn Travel Show to prep for your trip! Unlike some larger ci, Cedar Rapids don’t have one specific “gayborhood, ” or area where most of the LGBTQ populatn liv. Bee much of the cy is very LGBT-iendly, there’s no gay neighborhood per se.
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GAY PILOTS BRG LOVE OF AVIATN TO HELP KICK OFF PRI MONTH CEDAR RAPIDS
We also gathered books, movi and rmatn about gay and lbian people and ma the ems available to the public. We held our first Gay Pri Day celebratn 1995.
Brian Gambo print of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn speaks durg a news nference announcg the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn: The Worldwi LGBTQ Aviatn Communy "Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event at Signature Flight Support at The Eastern Iowa Airport southwt Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednday, March 23, 2022. Gay Pri CR?
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CEDAR RAPIDS
A iend told me that CR had somethg of a gay pri para, and sce 's the season for such ftivi, I have to ask if that is te.
November 3-5: Midwt Bisexual Lbian Gay Transgenr Asexual College Conference (MBLGTACC aka Mumbletech), Central Bank Center, Lexgton, Kentucky. This nearby llege town (Universy of Iowa), origally built to be the state pal (the ernment moved to D Mo 1876), has been acclaimed om several perspectiv: Cy of Lerature (UNESCO); 3rd Bt Small Metropolan Area the USA (Forb Magaze); and ranked high a list of "Gayt Ci Ameri" piled by the Advote, back 2010 - and thgs haven't changed a lot sce then.
The Bijou Theatre is a stunt-n art hoe cema that screens foreign and classic films, many wh gay them, at 123 2nd St SW, Mount Vernon, IA, the home of Cornell College, east of Cedar Rapids. In Iowa Cy the Riversi Theatre stag plays, some of gay tert, and the Dreamwell Theatre has an award-wng group of volunteers wh plays at var lotns around town.