LGBTQ cultures have, historically, needed to hide their bars and bedrooms for fear of eviction, firing, imprisonment, or worse. Each of us lives in a different Twin Cities: We share the Foshay Tower and the Mississippi, but we go home to different bars and bedrooms. Of course, the cancelling of Pride-the festival, the parade, the week when tens of thousands of far-flung LGBTQ peeps come streaming home-represents an act of love to keep people healthy.īut its absence presents us with an opportunity to consider all the profound and important local LGBTQ landmarks that built Pride-and often disappeared. It feels like saying we’re cancelling joy and progress. Later on, the civil rights “march” became more of a festival.
Its destination, Loring Park, represented a spot where LGBTQ people often encountered danger and arrest. The second Twin Cities Pride March, in 1973.
