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The Milwaukee Pride Parade is usually held the same weekend as PrideFest Milwaukee. The parade will be on Sunday, June 9, 2024 with a 2 p.m. step off time. The parade runs between 2nd Street in ...
The event was held in Juneau Park and later to Veterans Park on Milwaukee's lakefront. In 1996, PrideFest secured its current venue at Henry Maier Festival Park . PrideFest celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2007, which was also a record-breaking attendance year with 27,467 tickets sold over three days.
Global Black Pride began in 2020 during the pandemic when the group held a 12-hour worldwide virtual celebration and “joyful riot” for the Black LGBTQ community, according to TimeOut.
In 2022, the Milwaukee County Landmarks Committee named the former site of Black Nite a historic landmark. [7] In 2024, a historic marker, sponsored by the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project, was erected and dedicated at the former site of Black Nite. [8] [9] Wisconsin governor Tony Evers proclaimed August 5, 2024 as Black Nite Remembrance Day. [10]
The Progress of "Race Men" and "Colored Women" in the Black Press in Wisconsin, 1892-1985. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313255793. Pride, Armistead Scott; Wilson, Clint C. (1997). A History of the Black Press. Howard University Press. ISBN 9780882581927. Smith, Jessie Carney (2012). Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical ...
President-elect Donald Trump has siphoned off some of the Black male vote in Milwaukee since he first appeared on the ballot in 2016.
The Milwaukee Tattoo Arts Festival brings more than a score of body artists and other entertainers back to the Baird Center 2 to 11 p.m. Oct. 4, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Oct. 5 and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 6.
Photos of the 2015 st. Patrick's Day Parade Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Tap Daily; Parade-goers are green and Gabby Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by BRUCE MURPHY March 16, 2003; Shamrock Club and Bluemound Group Split Story Hill News January 18, 2004; Maker Space 2009 Milwaukee St. Patrick Parade Floats; Jackie Loohauis - Dancing, drumming for ...