June is PRIDE Month—be Proud!! http://www.glbtnewscincinnati.com Greater Cincinnati GLBTQ News Serving the Cincinnati LGBT Community since 1996 Northern Kentucky PRIDE Weekend June 27-29 Northern Kentucky party in the park! * Lots of vendors well. PRIDE Weekend will Saturday, June 28 * The 2nd Annual Sunday, June 29 take place Friday, June NKY PRIDEFest will PetZone 2nd Annual PRIDE 27 - Sunday, June 29. kick off with a Health * Kidzone Brunch and Recogni- Friday, June 27 and Wellness Expo in * Various activities tion Raffle will be held Organizers are excited Goebel Park on Phila- * Lots of new educa- at the Radisson 360. to announce the second delphia Street in Cov- tional components This event was a BIG annual PRIDE Bicycle ington (8 a.m.-noon). They are committed hit last year! Look for Ride! Last year’s Health and Wellness to providing a festival some similar compo- PRIDE Ride through- partners from through- environment that is in- nents as well as some out Northern Kentucky out Northern Kentucky clusive to ALL LGBT- brand new additions. was a hit and organiz- will participate. Some QA+ identities. ers are looking to do of the things you can 2014 will once again tival yet! You can ex- Pub Crawl (7 p.m.-2 a.m.) There is still time to even more fun and ex- expect to see are: happen in Goebel Park pect to see at this year's They are bringing back get involved! Please citing things with the * Yoga! and down 6th Street in NKY PrideFest: the PRIDE Passport join organizers for any ride this year. The ride * Various physical ac- Covington (12 p.m.-7 * A stage with live mu- concept this year to give of their PRIDE Com- is open to ALL ages and tivities! p.m.). Cross your fin- sic and various per- you lots of opportuni- mittee Meetings or con- abilities. * Educational materials gers and hope this year formers throughout the ties to win prizes at the tact Bonnie Meyer (via Look for some new * Tabling from various the rain stays away as day. raffle! Look for some Facebook or meyerb5- twists with this year’s community partners organizers are planning * Food and beverage new changes to this @nku.edu) to get in- PRIDE Ride and after- NKY PRIDEFest the biggest and best fes- venders year’s Pub Crawl as volved. June, 2014 Print Edition GLBT News—Page 1 Youth, have a bullying Problem—Call the Trevor Project, 1-866-4-U-TREVOR Information Page 2–GLBT News PE June, 2014 GLBT News had an Information Page several NKY PRIDEFEST, an State of the Union there was an influx of this New York, Connecticut, years ago. This updated info was obtained from We and us demographic into the organ- Rhode Island, Massachusetts, The Center. If you see something that does not annual event during izing community who had no Vermont, New Hampshire, exist or something that should exist but isn’t We are an LGBT PRIDE Month. Marriage Equality experiential knowledge of the Maine, Illinois, Iowa, Min- here e.mail GLBT News at [email protected]. pre Stonewall world . By the nesota, New Mexico, Cali- That includes phone/e.mail addresses. Community. That is us. These advertisers are It has been 45 years Since The Trevor Project the Stonewall riots. The LGBT 1990s cities passing protective fornia, Oregon, Washington (866) 488-7386 But, we are a minor- located in Cincinnati, Talbert House Community legislation and and Hawaii. It looks like a roll (513) 281-2273 ity in a Covington, now has a electing openly call of Blue States. More will (513) 281-CARE American Foundation for Suicide larger com- Newport and multigenerational LGBT officials. Follow. 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The publisher assumes no NOW Cincinnati Chapter responsibility for content, accuracy or validity of Advertising. WOF - Women Out Front Contents © GLBT News, 2014 Lesbian Events Substance Issues Vol. 18; June 2014—Print Edition (PE) Queen City Group - AA AL-ANON Mental Health America - SW Ohio This publication is dedicated to those Gateways, A Recovery Center Evening Entertainment & More who have or have died from AIDS or Hate Crimes Gay Bar Maps I Queen City Poetry Slam t is our goal to record the positive contributions GLBT people make to their community and the local Gay Literature Group - Greater Cincy community at large. While AIDS and Hate CRIMES are certainly not positive things, we seek to draw the And more... positive from the negative. We hold up Paul Delph and Matthew Shepard and their families as models of Cincinnati Front Runners how human beings should or could react to each other and how families should support loved ones whose Rivercity Softball lives are not in the box right wing religious zealots want them in. Delph, a multi-talented Cincinnatian, died Tri-State Prime Timers Paul Matthew Imperial Sovereign Queen City Court of AIDS in 1996. His mother shut down her business to care for him. Shepard died in 1998, victim of a hate Scorpius Cincinnati Delph Crime and his mother worked for years to get passed a national Hate Crimes Bill, which is now law.