# @clevelandmagazine on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/6881471-clevelandmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-05-30T13:00:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/clevelandmagazine

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"A quiet success." 🏳️‍🌈

That’s how a 1975 article in High Gear, a legendary Cleveland LGBTQ+ publication, described the “second annual Gay Pride Celebration.” A description of the day’s events followed:

“While nothing was done in the way of a parade, or mass meetings in Public Square, a very successful Friday night Coffeehouse, and a Gay Pride Picnic at, where else? Edgewater Park!”

Only a few years after the Stonewall Riots, Cleveland’s 1975 “quiet success” of a Pride was a decidedly low-key affair as the LGBTQ+ community began to explore its nascent political power. The 2023 Pride will exponentially amplify this power, with the sheer strength of LGBTQ+ visibility helping to scaffold the movement toward the nondiscrimination protections that are lacking here in Ohio. 

🧑‍💻 For Ken Schneck's full feature on the past and present of Northeast Ohio Pride, head to the link in the bio.

🖊 kenschneck 
📷 Robert Downing

#lgbt #clevelandpride #prideinthecle #cleveland #inthecle lgbtcleveland

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