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- 2ND ANNUAL NIGHTMARE BEFORE GAY CHRISTMAS
- GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
2ND ANNUAL NIGHTMARE BEFORE GAY CHRISTMAS
In 2022, NWA Pri celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Miss Gay Arkansas and Miss Gay Ameri pageants, heavily rooted Arkansas’ Queer history.
Jon has touched the liv of thoands of LGBTQ+ Arkansans and untls others across the untry as Miss Gay Arkansas 1972, Miss Gay Ameri 1973, and as owner of one of the largt and longt-nng LGBTQ+ nightclubs Arkansas and the south. Damien, who intifi as nonbary and gay, went out among iends while the rt of the fay went to the youth zone and checked out vendors at the parkg lot at Wt Avenue and Dickson fay has gone to the ftival a few tim over the years.
" Savvy Savant, Miss Gay Arkansas Ameri 2022, wav to the crowd while ridg the para, Saturday, June 24, 2023, durg Northwt Arkansas Pri Weekend downtown Fayetteville. The first Pri Para rolled down Dickson Street 2004, but groups of lol cizens anized ralli, march, piics, and celebratns to une the LGBTQ muny and promote acceptance for years – all the way back to the 1975 Miss Gay Fayetteville Arkansas Ameri pageant hosted at Gee's Majtic Boyle, Joney Harper, and Norman Hadley found NWA Pri, Inc. Regular events clud the All Out June Pri Ftival, Whe Party-Northwt Arkansas, Dickson Street Divas Bgo, the Mister & Miss NWA Gay Pri Pageant, the Pri Piic, the Pri Pub Crawl, and many 2015, NWA Pri, Inc.
GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
2nd Annual Nightmare Before Gay Christmas. Northwt Arkansas Pri returns full swg for 2022 wh the state’s largt LGBTQ Pri Para, the send annual Trans March, the return of the Pri Ftival featurg ma stage entertament, vendors powered by the Big Gay Market, and the Equaly Crew Youth Zone. Big Gay Market Star Gayzg.
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”Oklahoma Cy tri to entice LGBTQ tourists wh s annual Memorial Day gay roo and s small but thrivg southwt of Eureka Sprgs, Fayetteville is on a siar missn, tryg to appeal to LGBTQ people Arkansas and neighborg stat, for whom gog on vatn to a major cy is st prohibive — or not at all sirable. “Fire Island is fun, ” he add of the gay statn east of New York Cy, but Wilks wants to rema “te to who Eureka is” — a small town that’s wood, Southern and super gay. ’Fayetteville recently beme the first cy Arkansas to jo the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn, which provis ee rourc, travel suggtns and safety tips to LGBTQ travelers.