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ABOUT US

"It's about time." This is what we heard over and over as we prepared for our first Pride Alive event in 2008. The planning for Pride Alive actually began over a year earlier. In the Spring of 2007, Fair Wisconsin held a number of Town Hall sessions around the state to talk about the Marriage Amendment loss the year before and what the next steps were in the struggle for equality. In Green Bay, we decided it was time to restart a northeast Wisconsin Pride event.

We held a Town Hall meeting of our own later that year to get input from the community and get the ball rolling. Working with the City of Green Bay, we ultimately decided on the 2nd Saturday of July and Joannes Park in downtown Green Bay. Nine months of phone calls, meetings and presentations later, the 1st annual Pride Alive event took place with over 2,500 people in attendance. By all accounts, this first event was an incredible success!

But of course, we're not done. We continue to brainstorm new and exciting ideas, events and things that will keep you coming back and continue to keep the LGBT community moving forward. Pride Alive 2009 brought you the first annual Pride Alive Five 5k run/walk, NEW LGBT History Project, NEW LGBT Art Gallery, Safeguarding Our Lives Legal Workshop, and Post Pride Brunch. We are excited to continue working with some of our amazing sponsors including Oneida Casino, Kimberly-Clark, Quest, and Arketype, Inc. Without them, this wouldn't be possible!

Pride Alive is presented each year by NEWPride, a program of Rainbow Over Wisconsin. Since 1996, ROW has served as your "gay United Way," giving over $120,000 to over two dozen local organizations. With ROW's support, NEWPride is chaired by community leaders Andrea Schultz and Andrew DeBaker. Along with over a dozen Task Leaders, we do our best to make each year bigger and better and we encourage you to get involved! It's only with new blood and new ideas each year that we can continue to improve your Pride Alive!