You’re standg at the rner of Vermont Street and Pennsylvania Street, where the Circle Cy Pri Para has marched by every summer sce 2002. The para is a celebratn of the Indianapolis LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) muny’s s-long stggle for regnn and acceptance. Unrground Indy (1960-1981) Until the mid-1980s, the Indianapolis LGBT muny was “unrground.” Fearg social persecutn, gay men and women met vertly at the old Essex Hoe...
Contents:
- FROM “GAY KNIGHTS” TO CELEBRATN ON THE CIRCLE: A HISTORY OF PRI INDIANAPOLIS
- TAG: GAY PRI
- GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
FROM “GAY KNIGHTS” TO CELEBRATN ON THE CIRCLE: A HISTORY OF PRI INDIANAPOLIS
The Damien Center and several other groups surveyed closed to 700 self-intifyg gay or transgenr people about their liv. Vice Print Zach Adamson was the first out gay elected official the state.
” A kerfuffle surroundg an activist named Joseph Blevs, photographed sportg an IMPD T-shirt while celebratg the virtual Pri ftival 2021, earned verage om The Indianapolis Star and WRTV, rekdlg a s-long bate about the role of police the gay rights movement. For years, feel-good photo ops featurg police officers marchg wh gay activists were a staple of Pri events—somethg that would be unthkable post-2020, when some activists assume police to be a mortal threat.
’” said BLM anizer Jsi Louise about a lear of the Stonewall rts that lnched the gay rights movement. The para is a celebratn of the Indianapolis LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) muny’s s-long stggle for regnn and acceptance. ” Fearg social persecutn, gay men and women met vertly at the old Essex Hoe Hotel, which sat here on this rner until was molished 1994.
TAG: GAY PRI
At this meetg and others like , LGBT activists planned for the future of their muny and circulated pi of The Mirror and The New Works News, Indianapolis’s early gay and lbian papers.
GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
In 1976, the first “Gay Pri Week” was held Indianapolis, hosted by the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) and the Gay Peopl Unn. Rather than celebrate publicly, atten were ved to attend a piic at Sugar Creek Park, donate blood at MCC, participate a “Youth Kamp Dis, ” and attend workshops entled “Do I Tell My Parents?, ” “Christian and Gay, ” “Liftyl the ‘70s, ” and “Gays and Government.