Twin Cities Pride

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Twin Cities Pride
Twin Cities Pride Parade Banner 2012 7435013100.jpg
Parade banner (2012).
FrequencyAnnually in June
Location(s) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Attendance400,000
Website tcpride.org
A large leather pride flag carried in the Twin Cities Pride parade. LeatherPride.jpg
A large leather pride flag carried in the Twin Cities Pride parade.

Twin Cities Pride, also known as Twin Cities GLBT Pride, is a nonprofit organization which runs an annual celebration in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota every June focusing on the LGBT community.

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The celebration features a pride parade which draws crowds of nearly 400,000 people. [1] The parade was designated the Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride Parade in honor of the late former parade organizer and transgender LGBT rights activist. [2] Other Twin Cities Pride events include a festival in Loring Park and a block party spanning multiple days. [3]

History

The progenitor to the Twin Cities Pride Parade was a 50-person protest march in 1972 on the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, held on the third anniversary of the Stonewall riots. [4] [5] In 1973 pride events in Minnesota consisted of a "Gay Pride Week" including a picnic, a march, a dance, a softball game, and canoeing, featuring 150 attendees. [5] 1974's pride event included the first transgender speaker. [6]

The name was changed to "Lesbian-Gay Pride" in 1981, but changed back to "Gay Pride" the next year after an alternative Lesbian Pride event took place in Powderhorn Park. [5] In 1983, the two events reunified to form Lesbian and Gay Pride. [5]

The 1990s saw expansion of Twin Cities Pride activities, including vendor stalls and non-profit booths. [6] [7] The name of the organization was officially changed to "The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Committee" in 1993, one of the first pride event organizations to add bisexual and transgender to its name. [5] Multiple music stages were added in the mid-1990s; attendance in 1995 reached 100,000. [7]

2010s

Events organized in June by Twin Cities Pride in the mid-2010s include family picnics, music concerts, a 5K run, and a festival featuring hundreds of exhibitors and vendors. [8] In 2017, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters briefly halted the LGBT Parade. They objected to police involvement in the parade after St. Anthony, MN, police officer Jeronimo Yanez's recent acquittal of killing of Philando Castile. In response to the protest, officers marched midway through the parade rather than at the front as planned. [9] [10] Twin Cities Pride parades now attract almost 400,000 viewers in its route along Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. [11] In 2018, a protest delayed the parade by an hour. [12]

Archives

The archives of Twin Cities Pride, along with material from Twin Cities-area LGBT activists and Pride festival attendees, are held in the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota Libraries. [5]

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  2. ↑ Friedman, Marc (16 June 2012). "Guide To The Twin Cities Pride Festival". CBS Minnesota. WCCO. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Big Twin Cities Pride events". Star Tribune. June 26, 2014. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  4. ↑ Quatrefoil Library. "History of the Gay Movement in Minnesota and the Role of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union" (PDF). Quatrefoil Library. p. 33. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Vecoli, Lisa (June 25, 2015). "Time for Pride!". continuum. University of Minnesota Libraries. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Twin Cities Pride Festival". OutHistory.org. Archived from the original on June 21, 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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  8. ↑ "Press Room". Twin Cities Pride. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  9. ↑ Xaykaothao, Doualy (25 June 2017). "Protesters briefly halt Pride parade". MPR News. Retrieved 1 July 2017..
  10. ↑ Littlefield, Susan-Elizabeth (25 June 2017). "Pride Parade Halted Briefly By Black Lives Matter Demonstrators". CBS Minnesota. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  11. ↑ "Minneapolis Pride Parade fills streets with rainbow colors". Twin Cities Pioneer Press. June 27, 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  12. ↑ "'Pride, not prejudice': Despite protest, Pride parade proceeds". Star Tribune .
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