Pri Month 2019 | World's Biggt Gay Paras & LGBTQ March

Contents:

• AT DALLAS’ GAY PRI PARA, THOANDS TURN OUT TO CELEBRATE ‘A GOOD YEAR’
• TARRANT COUNTY GAY PRI PARA AND FTIVAL
• PRI MONTH 2019 | WORLD’S BIGGT GAY PARAS & LGBTQ MARCH
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• DALLAS' PRI PARA EXPANDS BEYOND 'GAYBORHOOD' WH FAIR PARK MOVE

AT DALLAS’ GAY PRI PARA, THOANDS TURN OUT TO CELEBRATE ‘A GOOD YEAR’

Dallas is home to the sixth largt LGBTQ+ muny the natn and is one of the most welg, gay-iendly ci the untry.

The Strip on Cedar Sprgs is the ma LGBTQ+ entertament district the Oak Lawn neighborhood, so you'll often hear the area lled by eher Oak Lawn, Cedar Sprgs, or the "gayborhood" by lols. Visors to the muny now enjoy a safe space to have bnch wh iends at spots like Roy G's, dance clubs and bars such as Round-Up Saloon or Sue Ellen's, and of urse, celebrate Dallas Pri every year June at Fair Park and the newly lnched Pri Dallas each September the heart of the gayborhood. In 2018, Dallas also beme the first cy Texas to be officially regnized for s gay and lbian neighborhood Oak Lawn.

Our performg arts muny enjoys the hard work and ditn of the Turtle Creek Chorale a gay men's chos that has sung for the queen, and Uptown Players, a theatre pany foced on prentg LGBTQ+ stori. In addn to Dallas Pri at Fair Park each June, a new group has lnched Pri Dallas to brg an event back to the gayborhood durg September.

TARRANT COUNTY GAY PRI PARA AND FTIVAL

Home to Dallas' LGBT muny and one of the most gay-iendly neighborhoods the untry, Oak Lawn giv off a trendy vibe amongst s diverse and quat hom. It was a historic celebratn: The march cid wh the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, nsired the talyst for the morn gay rights movement. “We are the new generatn of gay people the world, ” Btista add.

Johnson, Harvey Milk, Sylvia Rivera and Stormé DeLarverie, while the back not that homosexualy is still illegal many untri around the world.

The back of Stephen Carella's shirt reads "Homosexualy is still illegal 71 untri. “We were … throwg over rs and and screamg the middle of the street ‘e we were so upset ‘e they closed that place, ” Johnson told historian Eric Marc a 1989 terview that’s now been piled to an episo for the “Makg Gay History” podst.

PRI MONTH 2019 | WORLD’S BIGGT GAY PARAS & LGBTQ MARCH

The two emerged om the clash as lears of the gay liberatn movement, and helped found the group Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari (STAR), which offered hog to homels and transgenr youth.

“The gay pri para wasn’t a para, ” Maria-Elena Grant told CNN. The Gay Liberatn Front, the origal warrrs for LGBTQ rights who first anized after the Stonewall rts. It’s easy to fet s solemn origs as a march that memorated clash between police and protters outsi a New York gay bar, the Stonewall Inn.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

The media verage of what is now lled the Stonewall rts reflected the era’s homophobic attus. In the late 1960s, was still illegal most stat to be gay, not a sgle law protected gay people om discrimatn and there were no openly gay policians or pop culture ins.

The march also cis wh the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, nsired the talyst for the morn gay rights movement.

7, 2023Wa Gay Pri/Out on the Brazos Pri – Usually early to mid-October, but 2023 dat TBAAll photography at is by Andrew Colls, unls otherwise noted. ”Shipman, who liv on the para route on Turtle Creek Boulevard, was among thoands of people who turned out Sunday to celebrate Dallas’ first pri ftival sce the Supreme Court regnized a nstutnal right to gay marriage June.

DALLAS' PRI PARA EXPANDS BEYOND 'GAYBORHOOD' WH FAIR PARK MOVE

In 2022, a new LGBTQ+ anizatn formed to brg a Pri event back to the Cedar Sprgs gayborhood September wh s own para and other muny events. Gaybgo. Enjoy a night of legendary Gaybgo, prented by Rource Center and hosted at Statn 4 (S4), every third Saturday of January through November.