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  Gay pride parade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A pride parade is part of a festival or ceremony held by the LGBT community of a city to commemorate the struggle for gay rights and gay pride.
The rainbow flag, sometimes called 'the freedom flag', was first used to symbolize gay pride and diversity by artist Gilbert Baker in 1978, at a gay pride parade in San Francisco in 1978, and is now commonly displayed in gay pride parades throughout the world.
Workers of Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association participating in Taiwan Pride in Taipei in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pride_parade   (926 words)

  
 Gay pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The gay pride or simply pride campaign of the gay rights movement has three main premises: that people should be proud of what they are, that sexual diversity is a gift, and that sexual orientation and gender identity are inherent and cannot be intentionally altered.
Symbols of gay pride include the rainbow flag and also of the pink and fl triangles reclaimed from their past use.
Within the gay community, some reject the notion of gay pride, perceiving therein an undue emphasis on sexual orientation and a lack of discretion and modesty to the detriment of either public morals or the cause of gay rights; they propose to soften strident activism in order to better integrate into the mainstream.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_pride   (634 words)

  
 Salt Lake City, Utah - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Utah Pride Festival – Salt Lake City's second largest parade (after Days of '47) which occurs every June, celebrating the city's diversity and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community.
The Utah Starzz of the WNBA were once located within the city, but moved to San Antonio and became the Silver Stars.
This amounts to 8.1% of Utah's population, 20.2% of Salt Lake County's population, and 13.6% of the Salt Lake metropolitan population.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Salt_Lake_City   (5005 words)

  
 Utah Pride Intern, PT Contract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Utah Pride Intern will report to the Utah Pride Coordinator and will assist with all aspects of planning and executing the 2006 Utah Pride Celebration.
The Utah Pride Intern will also be responsible for planning and producing a “Youth Zone” at the 2006 Pride Festival with attractions and events tailored to event attendees ages 14 to 21.
The Utah Pride Intern will be expected to work a minimum of 15-20 hours a week, with the understanding that many additional hours may be required the week of May 31 to June 4.
saltlakecity.craigslist.org /npo/139914377.html   (463 words)

  
 Articles - The Utah Shakespearean Festival | Utah.com
The Utah Shakespearean Festival was founded in 1961 and presented its first season in 1962.
The festival is now a year-round operation with a full-time staff of 27 and a budget of nearly $5 million.
Now, the festival's host, Southern Utah University, is envisioning a sort of Shakespeare studies center at the university, and the surrounding community has evolved to reflect the emphasis on and pride in the plays.
www.utah.com /schmerker/2000/shakespeare_fest.htm   (1504 words)

  
 Gay pride parade -
Image:2004-GayPrideBrazil-45409.jpeg A pride parade is part of a festival or ceremony held by the LGBT community of a city to commemorate the struggle for gay rights and gay pride.
Image:Women Coalition of HKSAR on Taiwan Pride 2005.jpg The rainbow flag, sometimes called 'the freedom flag', was first used to symbolize gay pride and diversity by artist Gilbert Baker in 1978, at a gay pride parade in San Francisco in 1978, and is now commonly displayed in gay pride parades throughout the world.
Image:Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association on Taiwan Pride 2005.JPG On November 1, 2003 the first gay pride parade in the Chinese region was held in Taipei, with over 1,000 people attending [7], and the mayor of Taipei, Ma Ying-jeou, attended the event.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Pride_parade   (921 words)

  
 Salt Lake Metro - Feature Story: Insider Guide to Utah Pride 2005
This year, Pride Festival attendees who want to enjoy a beer are allowed to roam freely throughout the festival grounds, anywhere within the perimeter of the fence.
Because of the increased security and accountability at this year’s Utah Pride Festival, the Pride Committee has been authorized by the state to take down the fence at the beer garden, essentially turning the entire Festival grounds into a beer garden.
Event sponsor Bud Light joins Utah Pride in asking you to drink responsibly, ensure there is no under-aged drinking, and if you drink be sure to have a designated driver or use some of the city’s great public transport—Trax is just a few steps from the festival.
slmetro.com /2005/12/feature5.shtml   (350 words)

  
 Utah Pride 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mar 17, 2006: Press Release: The GLBT Community Center of Utah announces a new program to attract individuals to contribute to and experience all aspects of the annual Utah Pride celebration.
Feb 16, 2006: Press Release: The GLBT Center of Utah announces the theme and design for Utah Pride 2006.
Feb 16, 2006: Press Release: Utah Pride calling all entertainers to perform at the 2006 celebration.
www.utahpride.org   (153 words)

  
 News & Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pride was celebrated in Cincinnati, Ohio for the first time in five years on June 11, but with a total of some 1,500 marchers and spectators turning out for the 1.8-mile trek, organizers called this year's parade and festival by far the best to date.
Pride has been important to the economy of the City of Perth, bringing the merchants on its Northbridge route one of their two biggest nights each year.
For the pride festival and the pride parade, respondents could choose from a five-point spectrum: support, some concerns but not opposed, don't care, some concerns and don't want to see go ahead, oppose.
www.planetout.com /news/article.html?2000/06/14/4   (1093 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Most back marriage amendment
Gayle Ruzicka, president of Utah Eagle Forum, which has plans to mount a campaign supporting the amendment, also viewed the poll as a positive sign that Utah voters are largely unswayed by Don't Amend's efforts so far.
The level of support widely varied from region to region, with half or fewer of voters in Salt Lake and Weber counties supporting both parts; support was strongest in Utah and Davis counties and the rest of the state.
He noted that his campaign and other groups registered about 200 new voters "who were motivated because of this amendment" at the recent Utah Pride festival.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595073370,00.html   (719 words)

  
 Salt Lake Metro - News: Local: Countdown to Utah Pride
Utah Pride is just around the corner and organizers from the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Utah hope you’re making plans to attend and get involved.
The goal of the Pride Interfaith Celebration is to show that queer people are found in every faith tradition and many have strong religious and moral influences on their lives.
Utah Pride 2005 comes to a boil at the Pride Festival from 11:00 a.m.
slmetro.com /2005/11/local05.shtml   (808 words)

  
 Salt Lake City, Utah
However, the state defines the northern metropolitan area as consisting of Davis, Salt Lake, Utah, and Weber counties, therefore encompassing 1,702,450 residents, or 76% of Utah's populace.
Interstate 15 runs north-south; Interstate 80 runs east-west; Utah State Route 201 (the 2100 South freeway) runs east-west along the border with West Valley City; and Interstate 215, a beltway, which traverses the city's northwest and west neighborhoods and encircles the city's southern suburbs.
The city's mass-transit service is operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and includes light rail and bus routes.
creekin.net /c7928-n251-salt-lake-city-utah.html   (3331 words)

  
 ACLU of Utah Activist Email Newsletter
Under the law, which was passed during the 2005 session of the Utah State Legislature, Utah Internet content providers must evaluate and rate their speech, at the risk of criminal punishment.
The law also requires the Utah Attorney General to create a public registry of Internet sites worldwide containing “material harmful to minors”—speech that is unlawful to intentionally distribute to minors but that is constitutionally protected for adults.
This weekend, the ACLU of Utah is pleased to participate in two Salt Lake City events.
www.acluutah.org /activist0605.htm   (788 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Conservative Salt Lake City has surprisingly high gay population
During Utah's Pride Week Festival, running through Sunday, plenty of people like Johnson are gathering around Salt Lake City – a yearly reminder of just how large the gay community here has become.
Instead of flocking to those cities, many gays and lesbians in Utah are former Mormons who grew up in the area and don't want to leave, despite living under a political system that just passed one of the country's most restrictive amendments banning gay marriage.
In Utah, the church is as much a culture as a faith.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20050610-1358-wst-gayutah.html   (869 words)

  
 2006 Utah Scottish Festival & Highland Games
This national historical landmark was a fitting backdrop for the festival, with the military museum nearby and national guardsmen patrolling the gates.
All of the pride in my roots, the fear that demands I muster courage, the sense of belonging, the comfort of a clan to protect my family in case I cannot alone.
That is what the festival has become to me. I have not missed this annual event since.
www.utahscots.org /games.html   (1514 words)

  
 pride: University of Utah News Release: September 25, 2003
University Pride activities are offered in conjunction with the University’s Office for Diversity, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Utah, the Utah AIDS Foundation, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons and the Associated Students of the University of Utah’s Diversity Board and Presenter’s Office.
University Pride events will begin with a performance by comedian Margaret Cho on Oct. 1st, at 7:30 p.m., in Kingsbury Hall.
The final Pride Week event will be held Saturday, Oct. 18, and will feature hip folk singer Ani DiFranco in concert, at 7:30 p.m., in the Huntsman Center.
www.utah.edu /unews/releases/03/sep/pride.html   (599 words)

  
 VZ Local - Salt Lake City, Utah City Guide
The University of Utah is home to two of the best dance deparments in the country, the Ballet Department and the Department of Modern Dance.
Salt Lake City is home to the NBA team Utah Jazz and the Salt Lake Stingers minor league baseball team, a Los Angeles Angels Triple A affiliate.
Utah State Route 154 (Bangerter Highway) is an expressway that provides access to the rapidly-growing western and southern cities of the Salt Lake Valley.
www.vzlocal.com /Salt+Lake+City-UT.html   (5389 words)

  
 KSL News: Gay Pride Parade Marches Through Downtown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The annual gay pride parade takes to the streets of Utah's capitol city with a mix of entertainment and politics.
Utah's Gay Pride Week culminated today with a parade and festival in downtown Salt Lake City.
Anyone who ever thought conservative Utah is an unlikely place to find a large and vibrant gay community, clearly has never been to the annual gay pride parade.
tv.ksl.com /index.php?nid=5&sid=211567   (407 words)

  
 Utah gay center gets much-needed financial boost | Print this article | Advocate.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A prominent Utah gay and lesbian activist and philanthropist has agreed to match $100,000 in funds to help resuscitate a financially struggling activity center for the state's gay and lesbian community.
The pledge from Park City resident Beano Solomon at a fund-raising breakfast Wednesday is the largest individual donation the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Utah has received in its 32-year history.
It also organizes the annual Utah Pride Festival in downtown Salt Lake.
www.advocate.com /print_article_ektid3288.asp   (323 words)

  
 .: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 10 billboards tout "Utah Pride 2005," a five-day celebration that kicked off Wednesday with a gay film festival and culminates today with a parade and party in the shadow of Temple Square, the epicenter of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The state's two senators and governor are Mormon, as is virtually all of the Legislature and the state Supreme Court.
Fales will be on hand at this weekend's festivities — which include an interfaith service and a parade featuring a variety of revelers, from the flamboyantly costumed to the scantily clad (The Queer Aquatic Club).
www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2005/06/12/news/the_west/west02.txt   (982 words)

  
 Utah History Encyclopedia
In February 1917 a fifty-year franchise was granted to the Southern Utah Power Company, and by September most of the homes were wired and ready for the power which was turned on that same month.
Strong civic pride has resulted in the creation of an outstanding Heritage Park and Pioneer and Indian Museum.
See: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Washington County Chapter, "Under Dixie Sun" (1950); Andrew Karl Larson, I Was Called to Dixie (1961); Angus M. Woodbury, "A History of Southern Utah and its National Parks," Utah Historical Quarterly 12 (1944).
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/h/HURRICANE.html   (1036 words)

  
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Also walking were dozens of dogs, six horses (ridden by members of the Utah Gay Rodeo Association) and four llamas (courtesy of the Lambda Hiking Club).
Duane Jennings, chair of the Pride Interfaith Committee, said those groups aim "to let gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered know that spirituality is open to everyone.
For many Utah gays who feel isolated in their communities, Aaron said, Utah Pride is about "camaraderie - we need to be here to back each other up.
www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2798759   (639 words)

  
 Southern Voice Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hundreds of gay Utah residents and their supporters participated in the Utah Pride parade in Salt Lake City June 12.
SALT LAKE CITY — Hundreds of gay Utah residents and supporters braved rain June 12 to march through downtown in the 2005 Utah Pride Parade, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
It was the 13th annual installment of the Pride festival, the newspaper noted.
www.sovo.com /2005/6-24/news/national   (919 words)

  
 Pride Day Festival 2004
The Utah AIDS Foundation needs 100 volunteers to represent us at the 2004 Pride Festival on Sunday, June 13th.  UAF staff, board, volunteers, and supporters are all invited (and needed!) to help the Utah AIDS Foundation support the 2004 Pride Day Festival.
This year we are showing our support for Pride by having a big UAF presence in the Children’s Area as well as an outreach HIV testing booth.
The Utah AIDS Foundation is in charge of the Children’s Play Area this year.  The Children’s Area will be mainly located on the lower floor of the City Library.
www.utahaids.org /index.php?id=MTYz   (218 words)

  
 Mormonism Research Ministry - Behind the Zion Curtain - News and Comment Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Utah Gov. Olene Walker agreed with the ruling and will sign the bill into law, with her spokeswoman saying "she thinks there could be some more humane ways, other than a firing squad, to accomplish" death.
Utah officials felt that it had a fourth seat stolen last year when North Carolina had 800 more residents since the 11,000 LDS missionaries from Utah were not counted in the 2000 census.
A 13-year-old Logan, Utah girl who was attending the funeral of her great-grandmother at a Monument Park, Utah LDS ward claimed that the local bishop touched her in inappropriate places while she and the bishop were trying to take a television cart to the church basement.
www.mrm.org /news_comment/archive   (20687 words)

  
 Pride Fest 2002 - Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Logan, Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pride Fest 2002 as it is called will be January 18th - Thru - January 26th.
All screenings will be held in the Utah State University Taggart Student Center Auditorium.
For More information or you are a film distributor and would like your films shown at this year's Film Festival or next year's...please contact Tim Keller at tkeller@ida.net.
www.usu.edu /pride/pridefest02   (113 words)

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