Peoria gay pri ftival returns as weekend event

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• PEORIA GAY PRI FTIVAL RETURNS AS WEEKEND EVENT
• GC MAGAZE — PEORIA, IL’S 1ST GAY PRI WEEKEND, SEPTEMBER...
•  ILLOIS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• PEORIA GAY PRI FTIVAL RETURNS AS WEEKEND EVENT
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

PEORIA GAY PRI FTIVAL RETURNS AS WEEKEND EVENT

PEORIA — When Car Vargas moved back to his native Peoria 2010 after livg New York Cy, he was pleasantly surprised wh the gay pri event held on the Peoria Riveront that summer. “There was really nothg gog on for the gay muny, ” Vargas uldn’t gamble on an outdoor venue like the Riveront yet se weather tampered wh the event, and he joked that a para would be only a block long. The Peoria Gay Pri weekend will be next weekend, begng wh a bar crawl Friday night, followed by an expo and dance party Saturday night and a keynote speaker Sunday ’s not Peoria’s first gay pri ftival — that tle would be given to the 2009 event on the Riveront — but Vargas is posng as the first Gay Pri Weekend, lendg to a richer variety of activi and securg as a potential statn for visors om out of he spearhead the anizatn of the weekend on his own, Vargas found help numero plac along the way.

He enuntered some ial skepticism om Arn bee of his lack of visibily the central Illois gay muny at that pot. ” At the expo, booths rangg om spirual lears to surance pani, fancial servic and suici preventn will be on hand to aid the gay muny other areas of life.

GC MAGAZE — PEORIA, IL’S 1ST GAY PRI WEEKEND, SEPTEMBER...

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The fun begs:Friday, September 11, 2015 – Gay Pri Bar Crawl (Cost: $10)Wristband clus shuttle service to the five gay-iendly tablishments: Sparky’s…View On WordPrs. gay pri.

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 ILLOIS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

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CHICAGO (AP) - People fillg streets and siwalks for Chigo's gay pri para yterday say the event is extra special this year bee of the U. " The CEO of the gay-rights advocy group Equaly Illois says felt like people were holdg their breath wag for the urt to le and 's almost like people were llectively exhalg. CORAL is a non-prof, volunteer group that facilat workg and muny for the Central Illois lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny, all other sexual and genr mori, their fai, iends, and the anizatns that support them.

PFLAG is an anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and fai, and alli. LGBTQ+ Women is a social group for women who intify somewhere the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and/or Queer spectm and ri wh a one-hour radi of Sprgfield, Illois.

PEORIA GAY PRI FTIVAL RETURNS AS WEEKEND EVENT

Established 1999, Arn Equaly Fund Peoria, Illois, is a grassroots nonprof anizatn that provis fancial support for the advancement of tn, health, and civil rights of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr persons and their alli. ​Universy GroupsLLCC - Gay-Straight Alliance. The goal of the GSA is to assist and provi support for dividual who have g out or sex related health issu and the tn of Gay/Lbian/Bisexual/Trans (GLBT) and others about sexual and sexualy related issu; stand support of jtice for people of all sexual orientatns; promote awarens of the GLBT populatn on mp and to provi a safe zone for the GLBT and supporters to share ias, issu and ncerns.

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