Supporters ‘super proud of my hometown’ as gay pri para rolls through Buffalo Grove

Contents:

• SUPPORTERS ‘SUPER PROUD OF MY HOMETOWN’ AS GAY PRI PARA ROLLS THROUGH BUFFALO GROVE
• GAY BUFFALO
• BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS

SUPPORTERS ‘SUPER PROUD OF MY HOMETOWN’ AS GAY PRI PARA ROLLS THROUGH BUFFALO GROVE

In June 1970, one year after the Stonewall rts, thoands of monstrators marched up Sixth Avenue New York om the former Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street to Central Park where a “gay-” was held. It was lled the Christopher Street Liberatn Day and was the begng of Gay Pri celebratns as we know them.

GAY BUFFALO

Now, each year June, Pri ftivi across the untry serve to memorate the birth of the morn gay, lbian and transgenr civil rights movement, as well as affirm our liv the ntext of the larger muny.

In nservative, steel-town Buffalo, a closeted gay muny acknowledged Pri privately and unofficially. Participants scribe a gay muny largely divid along genr l, wh separate danc and piics for men and women.

BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS

By the mid-1980s, Gay Pri activi Buffalo were more foced and centralized. In 1988, the Buffalo Gay & Lbian Communy Network was found by Carol Sper and Larry Peck.