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For many years, bars were the only acceptg place for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny to gather, and a number of gay bars existed Wt Virgia as early as the 1940s. In the 1970s and 1980s gay and lbian support groups, such as one offered by the Reverend Jim Lewis at St.
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College mp Huntgton, Mantown, and Wheelg also beme plac where gay and lbian stunts found support. Gays seekg civil rights and regnn beme more polilly active the 1990s. In 1991, the Wt Virgia Coaln for Gay and Lbian Rights formed, and 1993, the anizatn troduced the first amendments to add sexual orientatn to hate crime laws and the Wt Virgia Human Rights Act, although they failed to pass.
That year, the first Lbian and Gay Pri march was held on Marshall Universy’s mp.
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In 1993, the weeklong celebratn at Marshall was met wh a unterprott vered by CNN that prompted a California woman to donate $10, 000 to support gay and lbian issu on Marshall’s mp.
The same year, Huntgton native Julia Hagan beme the first Wt Virgia reprentative of the support group, Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays, which now has other active members across the state.