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By Kastalia Medrano, Thrillist -- Utah’s first Gay and Lbian Pri March, 1990, drew maybe 250 people. It went more or ls unopposed. The biggt issue ran to was that the route took marchers past a bunch of parked horse rriag, the sort tourists ri around the downtown. “We were marchg by, chantg and screamg,” says Connell

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SALT LAKE CITY — Activists for LGBT rights raised the rabow flag over Salt Lake Cy Wednday as they announced plans for the 42nd annual Utah Pri Lake Cy Mayor Jackie Biskupski, the cy's first openly gay mayor, led the raisg of the flag and proclaimed May 31 through June 4 as the cy's 2017 week of pri celebratn. Dabakis, the state's only openly gay legislator, said that while there is still much work to be done for the LGBT muny, is important to put thgs perspective.

Amanda Mehner, left, Michael Mehner, and Naomi Tuft, right, dance at the fifth annual Provo Pri Ftival, Saturday, September 16, ’s hard to say which group of football fans was more surprised to see a gay pri ftival Provo — the visors om Wisns or the BYU fahful. And Draper was at the ftival manng the PFLAG (Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) booth. ”The Provo event is nsirably smaller than s Salt Lake unterpart, held annually early June, and ’s missg one element that’s bee a fixture at events the pal cy — anti-gay protters.

And he said was “super difficult” for him growg up gay there the 1980s.

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Gee’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr celebratn will have somethg for every member of the muny. Steve Stay wears a rabow flag as a pe durg the gay pri celebratn held at Vernon Worthen Park, St. Gee gay pri event participate a nga le para at Vernon Worthen Park, St.

Chris Wharton, an openly gay ndidate for Salt Lake Cy Council District 3, said Pri is an important and visible remr that Utah is not as homogeno as some may thk. "The movement has been cricized for beg too foced on the 'L' and the 'G' — the lbian and the gay — and not enough on our bisexual muny, our transgenr muny and our genr queer muny, " Wharton said.

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