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.
TAG: GAY PRI
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.
GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
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.
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. In 1976, the first “Gay Pri Week” was held Indianapolis, hosted by the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) and the Gay Peopl Unn.