The missn of Ptsburgh Black Pri is to provi tnal, social, polil, and cultural rourc to Black lbian, gay, bi-attractnal, and transgenr men and women and their fai Southwt Pennsylvania.
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GAY PTSBURGH
* gay pride pittsburgh *
The day before, Gay Alternativ Ptsburgh (GAP) chartered a lol streetr. 1992 marked a para apex wh nearly 1, 000 2001, the Gay and Lbian Communy Center (GLCC) took over Pri, anizg and movg the event Schenley Meadow. Ptsburgh Drag Kg Pageant, a Pri Run/Walk, and a performance by the gay/lbian sketch edy/baret tr 2005, the para snaked through downtown, across the Allegheny River to Riveront Park on the North Shore.
While the PriFt weekend officially kicks off on Saturday, June 8, the precedg week is full of activi and chanc to participate everythg om a 5k Fun Run and outdoor ncerts, to the much-anticipated Big Gay Piic on Memorial Weekend. Be Gay [Do Crime].
WHEREAS, LGBTQ Pri Month is celebrated each year the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan; and, WHEREAS, on June 17, 1973, Gay Alternativ Ptsburgh anized the first Gay Pri Para and Gay Pri Week events Ptsburgh’s history unr the tagle “Gay Ptsburgh is Comg Out! Cy Councilman Bce Krs, D-South Si, said he n’t remember a time that was “so malic and so llo” to members of the LGBTQ+ muny sce he me out as a gay man 1972. “The first gay pri ( Ptsburgh) was June 17, 1973, and ls than 50 dividuals met at Pot Park and marched through the streets, ” Kerr said, addg that she wonrs what those people would thk about the larger sle of events takg place now.