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Healdsburg to host first Pride event, marking milestone for LGBTQ+ visibility
What began as a wish among friends will become a milestone moment this Sunday, when Healdsburg holds its first-ever Pride celebration.
While the city has supportedLGBTQ+-related programming since at least — start with its first proclamation noticing June as Pride Month and raising a Pride flag annually since — this weekend’s event marks the first large-scale, community-centered gathering in honor of Pride.
Though not city-sanctioned, the event has backing from local leaders and was organized by Professionals with Pride, an LGBTQ+ chamber of commerce founded last year, with support from a network of volunteers. Organizers say the celebration arrives at a critical second, as LGBTQ+ communities nationwide meet renewed political hostility.
“Instead of feeling down and out, why not elevate our community by bringing a Pride celebration to our beautiful city?” said Lise Asimont, a winemaker and one of the event’s co-organizers. “We wanted to do this together.”
The event is split into two parts. A free
Gary Saperstein is out there, and he’d be the first to admit it. He is the founder and still owner of Out in the Vineyard, the earliest and by most accounts most flourishing of niche wine tourism planners targeting the LGBTQIA+ community. An extroverted yet insightful year-old, he came to California from Fresh York in the adv s, first as restaurant manager for Auberge du Soleil in Napa and then the Girl & the Fig in Sonoma.
He was also former interim executive director of the Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau, which may be where the idea of a Gay Wine Weekend was hatched.
Out in the Vineyard, and its annual celebratory Gay Wine Weekend, defines Saperstein. Now in its 14th year, Gay Wine Weekend began as a marketing event to carry more people to Sonoma Valley, where Saperstein lives. Most of its events over that period acquire been in the Urban area of Sonoma or nearby by.
Saperstein took over solo operation of Out in the Vineyard, previously owned with business partner Label Vogler, in It was held in as an entirely virtual event, but returned to the genuine world the following year,
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By Pierre Ratte
Rainbow colors on this Healdsburg fence and the flags celebrating Identity Month symbolize freedom, overarching beauty, something special and something joyful. Looking upon colorful flags and the happiness of Pride parades, it’s easy to disregard the history that led to these colors and today’s freedoms.
The term “Pride” originated from an acronym of Personal Rights In Defense and Education (PRIDE), a California gay rights organization which grew out of a raid on a gay bar in L.A. in May Three years later, in June , another raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, catalyzed a movement.
Socializing, even ordering drinks, in New York City in the s was fraught for gay people. Police maintained that any assembly of homosexuals was “disorderly” and arrested people accordingly. Bars refused to work for gay patrons. New York State law mandated people wear gender-appropriate dress or face arrest.
In , a “sip-in” was organized to challenge bars refusing lgbtq+ clientele. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights got involved. The Commission essentially stated drink