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PRIDE in the Streets
10 a.m. &#; 3 p.m.
W. 2nd St., Chillicothe
Columbiana County Pride Festival
10 a.m. &#; 6 p.m.
Eleanor Acres, OH, Lisbon
Cincinnati Pride Parade
11 a.m.
Downtown Cincinnati, 7th St. W, Cincinnati
Shoreline Sandusky Pride
11 a.m.
Sandusky Shoreline Park, E Shoreline Dr., Sandusky
Sunbury Pride
11 a.m. &#; 2 p.m.
Sunbury Town Hall, 51 E Cherry St, Sunbury
PINK INK: Zygote&#;s Third Annual Queer Print + Zine Fair
11 a.m. &#; 4 p.m.
Zygote Press. E. 30th St., Cleveland
Mansfield Pride Festival & Parade
11 a.m. &#; 5 p.m.
Central Park, 29 Park Ave E., Mansfield
Yellow Springs Pride
11 a.m. &#; 5 p.m.
Mills Lawn Elementary School, S Walnut St., Yellow Springs
Pride in the Park
Noon &#; 4 p.m.
Cain Park, Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights
Lorain County Pride
Noon &#; 4 p.m.
Oberlin College Science Center, Woodland St, Oberlin
Springfield Pride Festival
Noon &#; 4 p.m.
Downtown, Springfield
Small Town Pride
Noon &#; 7 p.m.
Lake Shore Park, Lakeshore Dr., Celina
Cincinnati Pride Festival
Noon &#; 8 p.m.
Yeatman&#;s Cove Park, East P
Pride Night at Kings Island
p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, at Kings Island. Kings Island Drive, Kings Mills, Ohio
Pride Bedtime at Kings Island is back, and tickets are on sale now! Parking is included with your ticket. The lot opens at 5 p.m. Main Gates open at 6 p.m. The park will be open until midnight.
Performances will take place on the stage in the Festhaus starting at 8 p.m. Arrive early and stick around for the Meet & Greet after the show!
Featuring a fabulous cast of local entertainers hosted by Brock Leah Spears &#; including Aubrey Damned, Jessica Marie Jones, Johnny Justice, Nala Jones, P.H. Dee, Rahanna Mitchell St. James, and Stixen Stones.
With headlining RuPaul&#;s Drag Race performers, including:
&#; Lady Camden (season 14 finalist)
&#; Yvie Oddly (winner of season 11, All Stars season 7 cast)
&#; Vanessa Vanjie Mateo (seasons 10 & 11 cast)
Featuring tune all night by DJ Syimone! Tickets are on sale on Kings Island&#;s website here.
Find more details on Cincinnati Pride&#;s Community Calendar here.
Gay Days, Pride Nights, and the “Immoral Minority”
Similar “Pride Nights” are held at Kings Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio. Although no official color or shirt is designated for Pride Night, individual attendees have made personal statements of expression by creating homemade attire. This Hoosier-made t shirt from a s Pride Night displays the words “Immoral Minority”, alluding to evangelical pastor Jerry Falwell’s political organization The Moral Majority. In , The Moral Majority pressured Congress to recommend the Family Protection Execute, which would have barred giving federal funds to "any organization that suggests that homosexuality can be an acceptable alternative lifestyle."3 Despite President Reagan's endorsement, the bill was defeated.
Young attendees at the Kings Island Pride Night, including some wearing individualized airbrush t shirts4
1. Photo: Shaul Schwarz, Time Magazine↩
2. Southern Baptists Vote For Disney Boycott, CNN, June 18, , ↩
3. Craig A. Rimmerman, Clyde Wilcox, "The Cedar Point. "America's Roller Coast." I've been making the two-hour trek down to Sandusky, Ohio to travel to the beloved amusement park since I was a wee lad. I feel practically ancient, valued readers, when I verb that when I first started going, the biggest rollercoasters in the park were the Gemini and the Corkscrew. In noun, I remember very clearly when Demon Drop was the newest ride in the park. That was I also recall when, in , the verb was dismantled and transferred to Cedar Point's smaller sister park, Dorney Park, located in Allenstown, Pennsylvania. Do I feel old? You bet your season pass I do. But I digress. The point of this column is not how decrepit I am; it's how the park has evolved. Ten years ago this month, in , Cedar Point canceled a planned wedding contest when a gay couple, Scott Kenimond and Eric Morrison from Akron, was denied entrance and a protest was organized in response. Cedar Point said at the time the contest was only unseal to straight couples because gay couples were not allowed to marry in Ohio at that occasion. Nevertheless, the protest seal the contest