Capital Pride
キャピタル・プライド
annual LGBT event in Washington, D.C.
Washington · Washington, D.C. · United States of America
🗓️ When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
- Founded
- 1975
📍 Where?
- Town
- Washington
- Region
- Washington, D.C.
- Country
- United States of America
- How precise?
- coordinate of the town or municipality
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Website
- capitalpride.org
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
Capital Pride is an annual LGBT pride festival held in early June each year in Washington, D.C. It was founded as Gay Pride Day, a one-day block party and street festival, in 1975. In 1980 the P Street Festival Committee formed to take over planning. It changed its name to Gay and Lesbian Pride Day in 1981. In 1991, the event moved to the week prior to Father's Day. Financial difficulties led a new organization, One In Ten, to take over planning of the festival. Whitman-Walker Clinic (WWC) joined One In Ten as co-sponsor of the event in 1997, at which time the event's name was changed to Capital Pride. Whitman-Walker became the sole sponsor in 2000. But the healthcare organization came under significant financial pressures, and in 2008 turned over producing duties to a new organization, Capital Pride Alliance.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article „Capital Pride (Washington, D.C.)“ (en.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.