Stories

The people behind the dates

Longer reads on the turning points, from a 1967 homophile group to a 2023 mural, drawn from interviews, scrapbooks and the Ohio Lesbian Archives.

Remembering the ’60s

“Annie” founded the Cincinnati Homophile Organization in 1967. In 1983, Annie told Phebe Beiser what it was like.

Cincinnati marched for the first time in 1973, but Pride hasn’t been held every year since. Here is why the count gets confusing.

Seventy-five people, a hand-lettered banner, and a walk from Washington Park to Fountain Square. Do you recognize anyone in the photo?

A UC graduate student tried to incorporate a gay organization. In 1974 the Ohio Supreme Court said no.

How one employee spent five years persuading Procter & Gamble to protect its gay and lesbian workers, decades before federal law did.

In 1993 Cincinnati became the city that wrote discrimination into its charter. It took until 2004 to write it back out.

In 1994 a Cincinnati civil rights attorney heard Quentin Crisp on the radio, looked him up in the phone book, and called.

After four years without a march, Chris Good asked a simple question, and Pride moved to Northside.

For the 50th anniversary of 1973, Cincinnati honored every Pride Marshal at once and painted a mural in Over-the-Rhine.