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- GAY PHOENIX / STTSDALE TRAVEL GUI
- FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE
GAY PHOENIX / STTSDALE TRAVEL GUI
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** Phoenix Gay Pri Ftival & Para **. Acrdg to Arizona’s Hip Historian Marshall Shore, who has lived Phoenix sce before the cy had a "gayborhood, ” the regn's LGBTQ+ history dat back to First Natn's people and the ia of two spirs. The days, everyone knows what a gayborhood is and where to fd one — even Phoenix.
What distguish this gayborhood is the inic Melrose Arch, one of Phoenix's two rabow crosswalks, a larger-than-life rabow mural on the si of Stacy's @ Melrose (don't miss this photo op), s annual street fair and, of urse, the welg atmosphere. Corona Ranch and Roo Grounds was home to Arizona's first gay roo 1984, and at the time, Arizona was only the fifth state to host an event of this kd.
FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE
* gay pride in phoenix *
The Arizona Gay Roo Associatn, which was one of the foundg members of the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn, is still gog strong 30-pl years later. At the same time the Arizona Gay Roo began, John Kg and Kenny Cunz opened Charlie's Phoenix, a untry-themed gay bar Phoenix's Melrose District. Phoenix has a history of hostg gay pri-themed events that predate the Phoenix Pri anizatn we know today.
In June 1977, the cy's first gay pri week was anized by the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny at the time and, 1981, the first pri para took to the streets. This hip, historic neighborhood near downtown was Phoenix's first and, perhaps only, "gay ghetto. " In the 1970s, middle class gay whe men began movg to the area and renovated many of the midcentury hom.
Highlights clu mic, entertament and more than 300 lol vendors, bs and anizatns each ftival and para promote “uny, visibily and self-teem among gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons, ” acrdg to Phoenix Pri’s webse. M., Gayle at 8 p. Now a Phoenix drag queen is sharg re ksPhoenix Pri historyPhoenix Pri trac s roots back to a monstratn June 1981 durg which more than 600 activists walked to the state Capol to march for lbian and gay rights.