GAY PRIDE HISTORY - OREGON

Two years after the Stonewall Riots which took place in June 1969, the gay community of Oregon began to leave the bars and go out into ‘the open air’. This had been going on at nude beaches such as Sauvie’s Island, and Rooster Rock but the shift to a community atmosphere began to take shape. This section on GAY PRIDE CELEBRATION will never be a complete history, but it will give a sense of how each year this event (s) was celebrated.

NOTE: Some of “Pride’s” archives are held at the Oregon Historical Society: Gay Pride Collection, 1982-2004: Records of an organization in Portland, Oregon, which arranged Lesbian and Gay Pride marches in the city and elsewhere. Items include programs, financial information, contracts and permits, correspondence, planning minutes, and miscellaneous items for annual festivals and marches held in Portland and Salem, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Materials date from the late 1980s and 1990s.  Click here to view the Northwest Digital Archives index of the Gay Pride Collection

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv10366

1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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Below are from 1999 Pride brochure “Stonewall 1969-1999 - 30 years”