PRIDE IN CLEVELAND has been celebrated by the cy’s LGBTQ muny sce the early 1970s. The gay muny Cleveland the 1970s was nnecte...
Contents:
- GAY CLEVELAND THROUGH THE S: THE CLUBS, QUEENS AND MIC THAT BROUGHT GAY CULTURE TO THE MASTREAM
- NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
GAY CLEVELAND THROUGH THE S: THE CLUBS, QUEENS AND MIC THAT BROUGHT GAY CULTURE TO THE MASTREAM
* gay pride downtown cleveland *
In the spir of the Stonewall Uprisg, anizers at the LGBT Communy Center of Greater Cleveland strsed the distctn between a march and para: Recent challeng that the muny has faced such as anti-trans bills and Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ iative prove an ever-prent need to advote for social jtice and mand equal rights. For the first time this year, The Center will also nstct a prehensive Health and Wellns Village partnership wh MetroHealth’s Pri Network Primary Care group that addrs the route and plex medil needs of gay, bisexual, lbian, non-bary, transgenr, queer and tersex people.
The dive bar the Greenwich Village neighborhood was the se of police raids on gay patrons that spurred the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg, and a year later, beme the lnch pot of the first Gay Liberatn Day March 1970. The gay muny Cleveland the 1970s was nnected to the larger gay liberatn movement growg the Uned Stat, which was propelled by the Stonewall Rt New York Cy 1969. 1970 to memorate the gay, lbian, and transgenr people who risted their ntued harassment and discrimatn by the police at Stonewall.
Cleveland’s gay muny the 1970s anized self orr to do the same. After the early years of Pri Cleveland the 1970s sponsored by numero anizatns, gay muny members and anizers Cleveland elected to jo the larger Pri celebratns Columb, Oh through the 1980s. The ncellatn led to the anizatn of Pri the CLE by the LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND which anized celebratns 2016 and 2017 before the anizatns rned 2018.
NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
The gay muny publitn HIGH GEAR claimed that the first Gay Pri March Cleveland took place July 1972 wh 70 atten. However, the stunt newspaper at CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, The Observer, claimed that the Gay Pri March that took place on September 15, 1973 was the first event of s kd Cleveland.
On September 15, the Gay Activists Alliance sponsored a Gay Pri March that began outsi of a gay bar lled “The Change” and moved along Euclid Avenue to a rally Public Square. There was a hope that around two-hundred people would be attendance, but only forty attend the march, which anizers attributed to fear by many the gay muny that they would be regnized and ostracized.