By Kastalia Medrano, Thrillist -- Utah’s first Gay and Lbian Pri March, 1990, drew maybe 250 people. It went more or ls unopposed. The biggt issue ran to was that the route took marchers past a bunch of parked horse rriag, the sort tourists ri around the downtown. “We were marchg by, chantg and screamg,” says Connell
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- A MOB WAS YELLG SLURS AND CHASG GAY PEOPLE AFTER UTAH’S PRI FTIVAL. ONE MAN STEPPED TO FIGHT THEM OFF.
- GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
- MORMON POLICE OFFICER PUT ON LEAVE OVER GAY PRI PARA SAYS LIBERTI VLATED
- SALT LAKE CY PRI: GAY BYU STUNT RECEIVG 'J LOV YOU' BUTTON WAS MONUMENTAL MOMENT
- A GAY BAR HAS LOST S OWNER — BUT THIS SAFE PLACE FOR UTAH’S LGBT MUNY ISN’T GOG ANYWHERE
A MOB WAS YELLG SLURS AND CHASG GAY PEOPLE AFTER UTAH’S PRI FTIVAL. ONE MAN STEPPED TO FIGHT THEM OFF.
Utah’s LGBT activists mourned, s Republin senators appld, and s fah lears breathed a momentary sigh of relief, but all sis agreed that Monday’s narrow Supreme Court cisn, allowg a Christian baker to refe to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, will hardly be the fal word the tug of war over relig rights. * gay pride salt lake city 2018 *
It wasn't symbolism, imagery or bety that ma Connell O'Donovan ci to fish the send annual Gay and Lbian Pri March at Washgton Square, the teemed park and home of the jaw-droppgly geo Cy and County Buildg. The prev year, 1990, O'Donovan had anized Salt Lake Cy's first Gay and Lbian Pri March, memoratg the 21st anniversary of the Stonewall rts.
The day after Gay Pri Day Sunnysi Park, about 200 people ngregated on the State Capol's steps to hear speech om proment gay and lbian lears, then marched down Ma Street, turned right onto South Temple and passed the Salt Lake Temple. The roots of the Utah Pri Ftival—which clus the Pri Para, the state's send-largt behd the Days of '47 procsn—stretch back to 1974, when Joe Redburn, owner of the former Sun Tavern, sponsored an event which some 200 people went to the Great Salt Lake's "Bare Ass Beach" to celebrate Gay Pri Utah.
GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
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"One of the reasons they went out there, was they didn't thk they uld have a public gatherg of that many gay people who wanted to be seen, " Ben Williams, retired schoolteacher and wrer for QSaltLake Magaze, says.
MORMON POLICE OFFICER PUT ON LEAVE OVER GAY PRI PARA SAYS LIBERTI VLATED
The followg year, the Gay Communy Service Center anized the first muny-wi sponsored pri celebratn, shuttlg people om lol gay bars to and om Cy Creek Canyon, where the "Gay Freedom Day" was held. Bce Barton reventg the Pri March and Rally and morphg to a Gay Pri Para 1994, Williams says Gay Pri Days Utah were more polil.
But once Freedman was elected to the chair of the Gay and Lbian Communy Council of Utah's Gay Pri Day mtee the mid-'90s, he ma the events more celebratory, creasg turnout.
SALT LAKE CY PRI: GAY BYU STUNT RECEIVG 'J LOV YOU' BUTTON WAS MONUMENTAL MOMENT
1969: Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns adopts a motn to memorate the New York Cy Stonewall Inn rts.
A GAY BAR HAS LOST S OWNER — BUT THIS SAFE PLACE FOR UTAH’S LGBT MUNY ISN’T GOG ANYWHERE
1975: Gay Communy Service Center aniz the first muny-wi sponsored Gay Freedom Day Utah, held Cy Creek Canyon. 1977: The Salt Lake Coaln for Human Rights celebrat Gay Freedom Day wh a three-day symposium.