Gay Pride Celebration 1973

“Gay Pride Week”

June 18 - 24, 1973

Theme: '“What Pride Means To Me”

A protest, a dance, a roller skating party, and a picnic at Washington Park.

Article above and ad to the right are from the June 1973 issue of The Fountain, National Gay Pride Week

Believed to be the first notice in local non-gay press The Oregon Journal newspaper, June 1973 (other than Doug Baker’s BAKER DOZEN ‘gossip column’.

Below: GAY PRIDE WEEK – JUNE 18-24, 1973 in the July issue of The Fountain page 12-13, TWO FULL PAGES!!