Patrons remember longtime Flt-area gay bar at Pri party: ‘Love breaks down barriers’

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Jo for the 8th Annual Flt Gay Pri Ftival! Pri events are a posive stance agast discrimatn and vlence toward the LGBTQ+ Communy!

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PATRONS REMEMBER LONGTIME FLT-AREA GAY BAR AT PRI PARTY: ‘LOVE BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS’

Lee’s event, WednGAY, will take place downtown Flt’s Bsh Park om 6 p. Lee said WednGAY will feature live performanc, dance petns and vendors.

Roby Lee, 32, of Flt, hyp up the crowd at his event, WednGAY, at Flt Cy Hard Cir on Sept. Lee began WednGAY 2021, before the cy of Flt had officially acknowledged June as Gay Pri Month, wh the purpose of creatg a safe space for the LGBTQ+ muny. [I’m] sick of no gay events or gay clubs or bars.

We have a gay muny, so let’s see if we n brg together, ” Lee said. The Gloria Col Flt Public Library (FPL) is hostg a film screeng of Stonewall Risg, a movie about when police raid a popular gay bar Greenwich Village 1969 and the muny rpond wh vlent protts that lasted days. “The Stonewall Rts marked a major turng pot the gay civil rights movement the US and around the world, ” acrdg to the event scriptn.

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The Flt Gay Pri Ftival will take place Riverbank Park om 2 p. The event is to celebrate diversy Flt and affirm gay and transgenr dividuals, crease visibily and build a sense of muny. Pri Month heavily due to the Stonewall Uprisg June of 1969, where police officers raid the Stonewall Inn — a proment gay bar Manhattan, New York — and sparked natnwi prott and activism for the Gay Liberatn Movement.

“There’s no greater reward than dog for the ltle Black gay boy who has someone to look up to now bee we didn’t have those people to look up to, ” says Phipps, reuntg a movg past experience where a preteen boy lled the duo his hero after seeg them perform. (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) Through the Freaky Boiz’s high-energy live performanc and slick raps over stmentals sure to make you dance, they’re rvg their own lane hip-hop and treatg dienc to mic that highlights Black gay joy, datg adventur and wo and empowerg antiexploatn bops tailor-ma for the digal age like “Cash App. ”“They’re tryg to teach kids that beg gay is wrong and that’s phg 50 years backwards om the work of people who started the Pri para like Marsha P.

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Patrons remember longtime Flt-area gay bar at Pri party: ‘Love breaks down barriers’.

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