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Columbus Pride (or Stonewall Columbus Pride Parade) [1] [2] is an LGBTQ festival in Columbus, Ohio, hosted by Stonewall Columbus.The event first took place in 1981, and has grown into the second largest LGBT pride event in the Midwest, behind Chicago.
Stonewall Columbus was founded as Stonewall Union in 1981. [2]Stonewall Union was incorporated by local Columbus, Ohio gay activists (Craig Covey, Steve Wilson, Rick Rommele, Craig Huffman, Dennis Valot, Val Thogmartin and Keith McKnight) in 1981, in response to Jerry Falwell's attempt to establish a Columbus based Moral Majority headquarters.
Slammers Bar & Pizza Kitchen is a lesbian bar in Columbus, Ohio.Opened in 1993, it is Ohio's oldest gay bar and is still run by its original owner Marcia Riley. [1] [2] As of 2021, it is one of approximately thirty-three lesbian bars remaining in the country and the only one in Ohio.
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LGBTQ community centers are safe meeting places for all people. Prior to the gay liberation movement, there were no LGBTQ community centers in the United States. They became popular in the 1980s following activism to combat HIV/AIDS in the LGBTQ community. By 2009, there were at least 150 throughout the country. [1]
Then, in the summer of 2021, he was a counselor at a queer leadership camp for 12- to 18-year-olds outside Los Angeles, and he said being surrounded by 100 LGBTQ people for 11 days was “euphoric.”