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Berkeley — Pacific Center for Human Growth; Los Angeles — Los Angeles LGBT Center; San Diego — The San Diego LGBT Community Center; Oakland — Oakland LGBTQ Community Center; San Francisco — SF LGBT Center; San Francisco — Queer Cultural Center; San Jose — Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center
The Center on Colfax was founded in 1976 and grew out of the advocacy work of the Gay Coalition of Denver. GCD held the "City Council Revolt" in 1973 which resulted in Denver city council repealing four discriminatory laws. [2]
The first Gay Pride Parade took place in 1975 with approximately 200 people marching along sidewalks to the Civic Center Park unaware that they needed a permit. [1] The first event resembling the present day Denver PrideFest occurred in 1976, the same year the local community center, now known as the Center on Colfax, was founded. [2]
This is a list of gay villages, areas with generally recognized boundaries that unofficially form a social center for LGBT people. [1] They tend to contain a number of gay lodgings, B&Bs, bars, clubs and pubs, restaurants, cafés, and other similar businesses. Some may be gay getaways, such as Provincetown or Guerneville.
The Gay Coalition of Denver (1972-1977) was a gay liberation organization founded in Denver, Colorado. GCD was central for the gay community, and offered services like doctor referrals, counseling, and a phone hotline. They led the City Council Revolt in October 1973, in which the Denver City Council repealed Denver laws that targeted the gay ...
LGBTQ community centers are often the most visible LGBTQ institutions in high-density municipal areas where gay villages are not in effective establishment (e.g., in Israel, where municipal community centers are established without the presence of a high LGBTQ demographic concentration); as a result of such local visibility, LGBTQ community centers often have come under both verbal and violent ...
The International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA), founded in 1985, [1] is the sanctioning body for gay rodeos held throughout the United States and Canada. They are the largest group coordinating rodeo events specifically welcoming lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender ( LGBT ) as well as heterosexual participants and spectators.
The North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Festival is an annual LGBT film festival produced by the Carolina Theater in Durham, North Carolina, typically held in mid-August. The festival has been credited in previous years as the second largest LGBT film/video festival in the Southeastern United States .