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GRAND JUNCTN, COLORADO’S FIRST GAY PRI PARA

- $10Doors @ 8pm, Shows @ 9pm18+ weleMESA THEATER538 Ma Junctn, CO 81501Pri Pass Event10th Annual Pri ParaSunday, September 11Donatns Accepted, *All Ag*Step off is at Noon (gay standard time), at the Avalon Parkg lot.

“I spoke to the muny about my sire to have a bar here that was more reflective of the gay muny, or more supportive, or actually, even nceivably, the gay bar, and nobody thought we uld do . Wh a lot of stggle and a lot of sacrifice, over the last eight years, we’ve managed to suate ourselv to the muny, and now are que proudly, and more often than not, lovgly, referred to as the gay bar town. More than a dozen anizatns marched behd, cludg One Colorado, the Wt Colorado AIDS Project, Moab Pri and the Colorado Ma Gay–Straight Alliance.

“I remember gog to the gay pri piics 15 years ago wh four people, ” said Silvia Bowersox, who has been a rint of Grand Junctn for 25 years.

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” Ron Zotto operated one of the only gay bars Grand Junctn for 4 years. Colorado Wt Pri also has plans to anize a gay film ftival and a prom later this year, and plans to participate Pri Ftivals Delta, Colorado and Moab, Utah later this summer. I’m jt a gay guy tryg to be creative before I’m kicked off this spng, pla-sized spachip hurdlg through the void of space.

It was the day of Grand Junctn’s first-ever Gay Pri Para and Ftival. Grand Junctn Gay Pri Para, May 19, 2013. Para participants ready a float the 2014 Grand Junctn Gay Pri Para May 18.

The most overlooked and historic story Grand Junctn this week is the area’s burgeong gay scene and the growg promence of the area’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) populatn. This year Gay Pri week brought an extend celebratn of genr diversy to this formerly staid town, where prevly people preferred to quietly sweep such culture unr the g.

CULTURE SHIFT: GRAND JUNCTN EMBRAC GAY PRI EVENTS

Sunday, May 18 brought the Send Annual Gay Pri Para and street ftival. Bs, Church Jo Gay Pri Para and Ftival.

Lol Media Stggl to Cover Gay Pri Events. KREX-TV News leav the “Gay” out of the Colorado Wt Gay Pri Ftival.

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Dpe the signifince of what clearly reprents an ongog cultural shift Grand Junctn, the Daily Sentel saw f to prt only a sgle photo of the Gay Pri Para, tacly emg good enough — no story, no terviews, and no sights to this sizable emergg lol muny. KKCO-TV 11 News (the statn whose slogan is “Know More”) and KJCT-TV news — which are now basilly clon of each other — both buried brief stori about the gay pri events ep their 10:00 p. To ’s great cred, KREX-TV, the town’s only remag pennt TV statn, vered the para and ftival, too, and even put a story about on their webse, but lled the “Wt Pri Ftival, ” nspicuoly leavg out the “gay” scriptor.

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