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In 2017 recognition of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Month, events were sponsored by local businesses and nonprofits. Pride Month was observed in June in recognition of the Stonewall Inn riots of 1969 in Manhattan. The site, later named a National Historic Site, was a gathering place for members of the gay community. [[CO DUBUQUE]] was founded to provide a local network for Dubuque's LGBT and allied community. (3)
In 2017 recognition of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Month, events were sponsored by local businesses and nonprofits. Pride Month was observed in June in recognition of the Stonewall Inn riots of 1969 in Manhattan. The site, later named a National Historic Site, was a gathering place for members of the gay community. [[CO DUBUQUE]] was founded to provide a local network for Dubuque's LGBT and allied community. (3)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YPv79pvotE  Actual banner carried in 1987 stained with eggs thrown by hecklers. Image courtesy: Stacie Neldaughter.
 


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Latest revision as of 17:24, 6 December 2019

Poster from the march. Photo courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/ykygu

GAY MARCHES. The first gay march was held in Dubuque on September 19, 1987. The idea of marching came to Ginny Lynns and Stacie Neldaughter, the event organizers, in 1985 after the two had attended rallies in Des Moines and Iowa City. It was intended as more of a gay rights march than a gay pride event. (1) Hecklers who shouted obscenities and threw eggs and rocks met an estimated thirty marchers.

The second gay march occurred in May 1988, with an estimated 575 participants. The third annual Gay/Lesbian Pride Rally / March was held Saturday, September 16, 1989. An estimated one-third of the participants in the 1988 march attended the event that included a march through downtown Dubuque and a rally in WASHINGTON PARK featuring a speech by Tammy Baldwin of Madison, Wisconsin. (2)

In 2017 recognition of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Month, events were sponsored by local businesses and nonprofits. Pride Month was observed in June in recognition of the Stonewall Inn riots of 1969 in Manhattan. The site, later named a National Historic Site, was a gathering place for members of the gay community. CO DUBUQUE was founded to provide a local network for Dubuque's LGBT and allied community. (3)


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Source:

1. Chanaud, Timothy. "Gays to Have Their Day," Telegraph Herald (undated newspaper clipping provided by Hugh Driver 1/11/2018

2. Stacie Neldaughter-interview 2/3/2014

3. Goldstein, Bennet. "LGBT Pride Month Events in Dubuque," Telegraph Herald, June 8, 2017, p. 5A