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careers and some had become victim River City of the AIDS Pride 2014 epidemic. With the By David Vandygriff organization in limbo, attorney Kim The year was 1978, nine years after the Stonewall riots Blankenship stepped that gave birth to the gay forward to rights movement and Jackreinstate the sonville celebrated its’ first Gay Pride organization Festival with a large picnic at along with the Jacksonville Willow Branch Park, thus becoming yet another city na- Gay Pride tionwide to be out and proud. Committee. The Lesbian & Gay Commu- The organization nity Center of Jacksonville was then renamed; (LGCAJ) was subsequently established receiving its’ 501 Community Rainbows, Inc. (c) (3) status in November of Two years later at the end of 1989. 2001, the Jacksonville Gay Pride Committee became In the years that followed, LGCAJ became an umbrella First Coast Pride, Inc. acquiring the umbrella organization organization for many and re-established the Out & community service projects About newspaper as Out In and the stepping stone for The City. After many years, other 2001 also marked the last non-profit start ups in Jacksonville such as: Out & About, year the annual Pride Festival Jacksonville Gay Pride, Unity was held at the fairgrounds and in 2002 FCP moved the Leadership, Safe School Coalition, The Lesbian Breast festival to the Sea Walk Cancer Outreach Project and Pavilion in Jacksonville Beach. In 2008 the name was First Coast Chorus. once again changed from In 1999, the future of LGCAJ First Coast Pride, Inc. to began to look bleak as many Merge, Inc. with the festival of the board members had left moving to Riverside Park. to pursue other endeavors/
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At one time prior to 2008, the following organizations were housed under the 501 (c) (3) umbrella of Community Rainbows, Inc.: First Coast Pride, Out in the City, the NEFL Names Project, the FCP HIV Testing Project, the Ray Castro Foundation of the Arts, MyOITC.com community portal and Steppin Out Networking Socials. Despite the largest crowd in its’ 30 year history for the parade, block party and a successful scaled back festival, low revenue would mark 2008 as the final year in the long history of pride celebrations in Jacksonville. The year would also bring an end to the newspaper, Out in the City, due to dwindling ad
revenue sources and the inability to secure an editor in chief.
canceled.
In 2010, Jerry Rosenberg compiled a group of persons First Coast Pride/Merge Inc. interested in bringing back a disassembled in 2009 as the pride organization to majority of board members Jacksonville and River City had resigned for various Pride was born. Starting with personal reasons and funding zero dollars, the LGBT was non-existent due to lack community came together of leadership in sponsorship and re-established a Pride efforts. While there were Parade and Pride Festival in attempts to resuscitate the October, 2010 to coincide organization unsubstantiated with Coming Out Day. The rumors/claims/accusations of River City Pride Organization large indebtedness and not only raised enough dollars funding issues took its’ toll on to finance the 2010 events all who were trying to put the but also made it possible to organization back together continue the events in 2011. and all pride activities were As of November, 2011, River City Pride was approaching a revenue balance exceeding $30,000 to take the tradition into 2012 and beyond. PARADE Show your pride, loud and proud! Join us this year as we celebrate our individuality by being part of the parade, or by simply showing your support!
the time and parade route. Block party immediately after the parade on Lomax St. sponsored by the 5 Points Merchants Association PARADE START TIME: 4:00 pm on October 4, 2014 START LOCATION: Boone Park
From Boone Park, turn left onto St Johns Avenue Continue for one mile to McDuff Avenue Turn left onto McDuff Avenue and continue for half of a mile Turn right onto Park Street and continue for one mile Stay left at caution light to Riverside Park
END: 5 Points Business District FESTIVAL October 5, 2014 11:00 am—8:00pm Riverside Arts Market 715 Riverside Avenue Jacksonville, FL 32205 FREE ($3 Donations Suggested—FREE Commemorative Bracelet with donations).
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