helped establish the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization known today as Phoenix Pride. This committee, best known at the time as the Phoenix Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee, Inc. Nearly ten years later, a group of volunteers joined together to coordinate the annual Pride festival.
It was a politically focused march to bring awareness to gay rights issues in Phoenix. In 1981, a group of gay & lesbian activists organized the first Pride march through the streets of downtown Phoenix to the state Capitol building.
