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* Rally '99 New Haven's Second Annual Pride Celebration, June 12, 1999 * A Proud Past A Powerful Future, June 19, 1999 * Equality through Visibility, June 21, 1997 * Equality Through Visibility, Security, June 21, 1997 * Equality Through Visibility, June 21, 1997 * Connecticut 10th Annual Pride Festival, June 23, 1990 * Lesbian/Gay Pride Festival Connecticut, June 23, 1984 * Coming Out = Political Clout, June 23, 1984 * Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival, June 26, 1982 * Together in Pride Forward We Stride, June 15, 1991 * Stonewall 20, A generation of Pride, June 24, 1989 * Forward Together.There's No Stopping Us Now, June 8, 1986 * You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, June 29, 1985 In 1986, I believe, the CLGPF was granted 501(c) (3) tax exempt status. The two groups worked closely together until the passage of the gay rights bill. The political work of the Task Froce grew into the Connecticut Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights. Later, the organization called Connecicut Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival (CLGPF) spun off from the Task Force to work solely for the purpose of producing the festival each year, starting in '84. The Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Pride Festivals were originally organized by a group called the Greater Hartford Lesbian and Gay Task Force ('82, '83). And if we were to be visible, to stand up and be counted, to come out and be proud of who we were, then we must do it in our own back yards and stop running to New York and Boston to hide among the masses. Only through our visibility would we be able to gain political clout and win civil rights for ourselves. The Connecticut Festival was started because we believed all gay and lesbian people should come out and be visible. Many people who worked for the insurance companies of downtown Hartford were afraid to participate for fear their employers would see them. The 1982 festival drew approximately 200-250 people to the Old State House in Hartford.
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Before CT Pride festivals began, CT gays and lesbians marched in the festivlas in either New York or Boston where significant numbers of people guaranteed anonymity. Coming out to a pride festival in Hartford meant possibly coming out to employers, landlords, families, and others to whom one was not ready to come out. Connecticut Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival CollectionĬonnecticut gays and lesbians waited until 1982 to have a festival because it was a very daring and risky thing to do in a small conservative city like Hartford.