Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn to host first-of-s-kd fly- event Cedar Rapids | The Gazette

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• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN TO HOST FIRST-OF-S-KD FLY- EVENT CEDAR RAPIDS
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN
• JO OUR WNG TEAM.
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN EXHIBS AT WAI CONFERENCE
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN TO HOST ‘AVIATN BLOCK PARTY’ SUNDAY AT EASTERN IOWA AIRPORT

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN TO HOST FIRST-OF-S-KD FLY- EVENT CEDAR RAPIDS

The cy of Cedar Rapids and The Eastern Iowa Airport will host the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn’s “Wgs Over Iowa” fly- event June 3-5, a first-of-s kd event that will brg members of the worldwi LGBTQ aviatn muny to Iowa’s send-largt cy, officials announced Wednday at the airport.

Stow said the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn event is anticipated to have an enomic impact of approximately $1 ln.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN

” The Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn has a 32-year history and held s first meetg Provcetown, Mass., 1992. Members gathered mostly shroud secrecy, wearg T-shirts wh airplan or ems to signal they were part of the event sce wasn’t broadly accepted to be openly lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer.

” Comments: (319) 398-8494; Brian Gambo, print of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, speaks Wednday durg a news nference at The Eastern Iowa Airport announcg the "Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event here June 3-5.

(Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell (center) applds after Brian Gambo (left), print of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, spoke Wednday at a news nference announcg the "Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event on June 3-5 Cedar Rapids.

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(Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Marty Lenss, director of The Eastern Iowa Airport, speaks Wednday durg a news nference announcg the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn’s “Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event.

(Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Brian Gambo (right), print of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, talks Wednday wh Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell after a news nference announcg the upg "Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event. NGPA Indtry Expo 2018Thanks to the kdns and generosy of the folks at the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn (NGPA), PAPA was able to host a booth at their flagship 2018 Indtry Expo sunny Palm Sprgs. Now substute the term LGBTQ+ for left-hand, and you have the plight of many gay persons—we e the term gay clively here.

This is part the reason behd the creatn of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn. The Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, the worldwi LGBTQ+ aviatn muny, was tablished 1990 primarily as a social anizatn.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN EXHIBS AT WAI CONFERENCE

June is a by month for the anizatn bee is Pri Month, marked by paras and other celebratns held around the world to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals have had on history.

It is celebrated June to memorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan, New York, which was a turng pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat.

”Brian Gambo, print, Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn. He not that NGPA events give LGBTQ+ aviators a chance to relax and be themselv—and sometim that is difficult to do the aviatn workplace where they may enunter bigotry, homophobia, and transphobia. It n manift the form of a worker g the word “gay” as a pejorative adjective or when someone misgenr-intifi someone by g the wrong pronouns or “adnam” them, the practice of g the former name of a transgenr dividual rather than the name they have chosen that better aligns wh their inty.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN TO HOST ‘AVIATN BLOCK PARTY’ SUNDAY AT EASTERN IOWA AIRPORT

“For example, you might be on a four–day trip and have to spend hours and hours the ckp wh someone who is homophobic, and you have to judge the suatn and pick your battl. The NGPA has a homophobia and transphobia reportg le where people who have had negative teractns the workplace n share them, perhaps as a warng to others about what to expect at a particular bs. Warfield intified as gay growg up and when she me out to her fay, they said, “We love you, and we want you to be happy.

They have been together for 28 years and were officially married October 2013, when gay marriage was legalized Washgton state.