When is gay pride in las vegas 2017

How did you first become involved with what you describe in your book as the first Gay Pride event in Las Vegas back in ? So, we decided we were going to have it at the university UNLV because they were very gay-friendly. We set up what we called a Human Rights Seminar, which sounds safe, but nearly all of the seminars that we had and workshops were gay-oriented.

It might have grown much bigger earlier, except that was the outset of the AIDS pandemic. Tell me more about the line that Pride has walked between celebration and political action regarding issues such as public health. The gay communities were not founded here on political issues.

It was social. Nevadans for Human Rights was the first political organization that was established here, but by people who had been involved in politics in other places. When they came here and saw the state of the community, they determined they were going to make a political presence and bring us along.

They learned quite early on that the best way to approach the Las Vegas gay community, if you wanted to build a political presence, was socially. Pride, of course, especially early on, was meant to be a political statement. In other places, that political statement morphed into more of a social thing with politics attached rather than politics with social things attached.

If we did it in Nye County, absolutely. Just to illustrate that: Republican Gov. So, whatever recourse you might have, to bring a lawsuit and fight it through the courts, has been taken away. What are you going to do if you want change? Is there a responsibility for people in Nevada to speak out, or act politically on behalf of queer people nationally?

When you are safe in your space, that does suggest a responsibility to make sure that others are also safe in their space.

Pride parade makes colorful statement in Las Vegas — PHOTOS

Stonewall started out as a reaction to something happening not just in New York, but on that very street in that one spot. As the weeks and the months went by afterwards it spread into a shared sense of responsibility for gay communities across the country. Las Vegas Pride Night Parade begins at 6 p.

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