2016 Memphis Gay Pri Detalet - 2016 Mid-Jug Gay Pri

Contents:

• ASTOR COLLECTN DOCUMENTS FOUR DES OF MEMPHIS’ GAY COMMUNY
• MEMPHIS GAY GUI AND EVENTS CALENDAR
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• GJYSMA E JUGUT GAY PRI 2016 - MEMPHIS GAY PRI 2016

ASTOR COLLECTN DOCUMENTS FOUR DES OF MEMPHIS’ GAY COMMUNY

Participants celebrated their own inty as gay, lbian, bisexual, queer or transgenr, or me to back others. Amid Saturday's revelry, was hard to remember that not so long ago, siar paras Tennsee were far smaller and far more 1993, for stance, anizers of a lbian and gay pri para Chattanooga filed a lawsu for the right to para down a ma thoroughfare after some area rints said they didn't want the para their neighborhood, The Associated Prs reported at the time. Two upg exhibs at the Mm of Science and History (MoSH) will explore the Gay Rights Movement om a natnal perspective and through a lol lens.

That explor how the police raid of the Stonewall Inn New York’s Greenwich Village June 1969 beme the spark that igned the morn gay rights movement the Uned Stat.

MEMPHIS GAY GUI AND EVENTS CALENDAR

It artifacts and imag to shed light on important ton of gay rights history, om the 1978 assassatn of Harvey Milk–one of the untry’s first openly gay elected officials–to the AIDS crisis. “Rise Up” also exam pop culture’s role fluencg attus about the LGBTQ muny through film, televisn and sports, and exam how the gay rights movement has appropriated the power of public prott and monstratn to get laws changed and to shatter pann exhib is all Memphis and all lolly curated.

Memphis Gay Pri March 1983. Gay Day the ParkFor many of , "g out of the closet" was anythg but a piic, but the 1970's thats exactly how the Memphis LGBTQ+ muny chose to e was celebrated back as early as 1976 wh "Gay Day", a piic Audubon Park that was vered by a lol publitn at the time, Gaiety Newspaper. The First Gay River CiseThis photo by Hunter Johnston (far Left) wearg the "GAzE" t-shirt" was taken at the the 1980 Pri Week "Piic", which was anized by the Memphis Gay Coaln and held the U of M area at the home of Jim Ramsey (center-ont holdg the dog).

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

The piic was followed by the first of many gay river cis held on the Memphis Queen II Riverboat. The June 1980 cise was promoted as "Party on the River, a Gay Cise on "The Queen II"" There was another cise the tumn billed as " Moon Light Madns". The First MarchThe first of several march was anized Peabody Park begng 1981 by the Memphis Gay Coaln.

That same year the Gay Pri River Ri was first held; ntued for 20 years. Gay FtGayFt, a larger-sle ftival, premiered 1987.

GJYSMA E JUGUT GAY PRI 2016 - MEMPHIS GAY PRI 2016

The Memphis Gay and Lbian Communy Center (Now Out Memphis) began s "Gay Expo" 1990 and held a variety of Pri themed events for several years after. The Black Pri MovementIn 1991, a group of Black gay men and women Washgton, DC cid to take advantage of an annual Memorial Day weekend gatherg lled the “Children’s Hour”. Most of the Children’s Hour ftivi were held a Black gay equented bar lled the Club Hoe that was very popular om the 70’s to s closg the early 90’s.

Welmore Cook, Theodore Kirkland and Ernt Hopks, founrs of DC Black and Lbian Gay Pri Day as was lled 1991, wanted to ntue what had bee a tradn the Black LGBT muny buy addg an important nsiratn – they were gog to raise funds for anizatns who provid servic to Blacks/Ain Amerins affected by and fected wh HIV/AIDS, and dissemate important HIV/AIDS preventn rmatn to atten of the “Black Pri” event.

A r full of pneers who had seen many of the tought years of gay liberatn ro the lead om Overton Park to Peabody Park. Gay Veterans Jim Harrgton and Kijowski lead the Para as Grand Marshals and the 1995 bandana was seen everywhere. The Para was led by MAGY (Memphis Area Gay Youth) and attendance grew.