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AFTER PHBACK, MADISON POLICE WON'T PARTICIPATE GAY PRI MARCH
David Clarenbach, who thored Wisns’s gay rights law (the natn’s first, 1982), will emcee and speakers clu Sarah McBri of the Human Rights Campaign and lol activist T Banks.
The piic was tradnally held on the third weekend of July although that has been shifted some years to avoid nflicts wh other regnal gay events, such as the Gay Gam 2006 when the piic was held on the send weekend of July. The acronym MAGIC stands for Madison Area Gay Interim Commtee and was also formed partially rponse to Ana Bryant's anti-gay mpaign of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The MAGIC piic was also closely associated wh the lol and natnal gay volleyball league which ually held a tournament Madison on the same weekend as the MAGIC piic.
On October 11, 1987, Madison rints Pam Jabson and Tim O'Brien were separately attendg the Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, greatly spired by the prence of the more than 500, 000 people assembled on the natnal Mall. It was durg the first mtee meetg that the name GALVAnize (Gay and Lbian Visibily Alliance) was selected.