The 1983 Gay and Lbian Pri Week occurred between June 20-26. Planners dited programmg to AIDS awarens, voter tn, and civil rights issu. Many ci anized "Gay Pri" paras. In Ccnati, the 1983 para marked the 10th anniversary of public events ordated by the Greater Ccnati Gay Coaln. In Columb, marked the 3rd year of activism planned by Stonewall Unn.
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GAY & LBIAN FREEDOM PRI WEEK COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLN, 1983
Click to enlarge Bernard Sanrs Papers, Special Collectns, Universy of Vermont Library A 1983 Burlgton Free Prs story on Burlgton's first gay pri march. H., Saturday morng that he's no newer to gay rights.
His 1996 vote agast the Defense of Marriage Act, which fed marriage as "a legal unn between one man and one woman" and allowed stat to refe to regnize gay marriag performed elsewhere.
When gay rights anizers planned Burlgton's first-ever pri para June 1983 — two years after Sanrs was elected mayor of the Queen Cy — they lled on the Board of Alrmen to signate June 25 Lbian and Gay Pri Day. "This human rights issue is of great importance to our muny, " the Organizg Commtee of the Lbian and Gay Pri Celebratn wrote a June 6 letter to the board. After que some bate at a June 13 meetg, the board voted six to five favor of signatg the date of the march Lbian and Gay Pri Day, acrdg to a ntemporaneo story om the Burlgton Free Prs.