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MR. COLUMB GAY PRI
”This is what the Columb gay pri para is about, a Stonewall Unn lear told the Dispatch 1982. The lol gay rights group anized Columb’s first official Gay Pri Para that prev year, 1981, 200 people marched om the Oh State Universy to the Statehoe memoratn of the 1969 Stonewall rts, a seri of vlent nontatns between gay rights activists and police at Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay 1982 para attracted more than 500 marchers, the Dispatch reported, and marked the first year the event was known as the gay pri para. In 1984, the pri para — known as the Oh-Michigan Lbian and Gay Pri Para — drew 4, 000 people, anizers told the the s sce, the Columb Pri para and ftival has grown exponentially: It now rivals Chigo for the tle of biggt pri celebratn the Midwt, and is one of the largt pri celebratns the untry.
At the 1983 para, amid marchers’ lls for the feral ernment to vote more money to AIDS rearch, anti-gay monstrators attributed the adly disease to homosexualy. I would go om a trans woman's attic, to a lbian's basement, to this gay guy's photo album that was unrneath all the stacks, ” said Schneck. Others me om the Gay Oh History Iniative or GOHI at the Oh History Connectn.
As Oh has extremely ld wters, is a relief that the gay pri celebratns habually take place June, meang party enthiasts n benef om the warm weather and celebrate their pri relaxed, summer attire. Started the event as a way to raise awarens of the gay culture Oh, and to give visors and lols alike an outlet for their pri. In terms of numbers and participants, the only larger gay ftival the Midwt is the one Chigo, Illois.