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East-Central Minnesota Pride is the yearly celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents in the rural area near Pine City, Minnesota, United States. [1] At the time of its inception, it was the first rural community in the U.S. to hold a Pride [ 2 ] It was also the first pride gathering held outside of a metropolitan area ...
In 1981 the name was changed to "Lesbian-Gay Pride." However, Stewart Van Cleve, author of "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" says, "there was a lot of sexism at the time towards women, in a lot of LGBTQ+ organizations," and "Lesbian" was removed from the title changing the name back to "Gay Pride" in 1982. [8]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the U.S. state of Minnesota have the same legal rights as non-LGBTQ people. Minnesota became the first U.S. state to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in 1993, protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination in the fields of employment, housing, and public accommodations.
To start, Pride Month began 54 years ago in June 1970 with Gay Pride Week, a celebration that marked the first anniversary of the violent raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City.
Members of an LGBTQ+ group are calling on the mayor of a southern Minnesota city to meet their demands — or resign — after he asked pastors at a church holding a Pride event if there would be ...
A 1970s gay liberation protest in Washington, D.C.. The first pride marches were held in four US cities in June 1970, one year after the riots at the Stonewall Inn. [3] The New York City march, promoted as "Christopher Street Liberation Day", alongside the parallel marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, marked a watershed moment for LGBT rights. [4]
Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, ... In 1999, Walz, then a 35-year-old social studies teacher at Mankato West High School, advised the school’s first gay-straight alliance (GSA), a ...
Thomas Lawrence Higgins (June 17, 1950 – November 10, 1994) was an American writer and gay rights activist credited with coining the term gay pride. [1] He is best known for pushing a pie into the face of anti-gay activist Anita Bryant on live television in 1977.