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Contacts: Catherine Hecht, Co-Chair/Executive Director Phone: 201.344.5233 Email: cathecht@jclgo.org Paul Mendoza, Co Chair/Pride Festival Director Phone: 646.567.9693 Email: paul@jclgo.org |
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
JCLGO HOSTS ANNUAL JERSEY CITY LGBT PRIDE FESTIVAL & PRIDE
WEEK
The theme of this year’s Jersey City LGBT Pride Festival is Live and Let Love and “celebrates and honors our LGBT families, and the lives and love made stronger and more visible by the addition of our new rights acquired through the recent victories the LGBT community has gained with Civil Unions while still pointing towards the future of getting full Marriage Equality.” according to Catherine Hecht, JCLGO’s Executive Director.
The Jersey City LGBT Pride Festival is the culmination to a week-long series of events celebrating the LGBT Community from August 19-August 25 during JCLGO’s annual LGBT Pride Week.
Jersey City LGBT Pride Week activities include
| Saturday August 25, 2007 | 12-8pm | Admission: Free | Jersey
City LGBT Pride Festival, “Live and Let Love” Exchange Place, On the Waterfront |
| 8pm- | Admission: $5 | Jersey City
Pride Official After-Party Hard Grove Café, 319 Grove St Co-Sponsored by Hard Grove Café |
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| Sunday August 19, 2007 | 6pm | Admission: $10 | Jersey City
Pride Pre-Party, LITM, 140 Newark Ave Co-Sponsored by LITM |
| Monday August 20, 2007 | 6pm | Admission: Free | Jersey City
Rainbow Flag Raising & Reception Jersey City City Hall, 280 Grove St |
| Tuesday August 21, 2007 | 6pm | Admission: Free | Rainbow Flag
Raising & Reception at Brennan Court House 583 Newark Ave |
| Wednesday August 22, 2007 | 7-9pm | Admission: $3 | Hudson Pride
Connections, Second Annual Youth Event Glamorous Youth Fashion
and Talent Show The Church of Incarnation, 68 Storms St Co-Sponsored by Hudson Pride Connections |
| Thursday August 23, 2007 | 7:30pm | Admission: Free | Pride Festival
Volunteer Meeting, One Exchange Place Party after the meeting at The Star Bar 34 Wayne St Co-Sponsored by The Star Bar |
| Friday August 24, 2007 | 7-12pm | Admission: $10 | ‘Meltdown’ 2nd Annual Ladies Night, 1 McWilliams Pl, Roof Deck |
| 12-2pm | Grrl After Party, LITM, 140 Newark Ave Co-Sponsored by Art House, Chilltown Pride Center, LITM | ||
| 10pm- | Admission: $5 | MANifest, First Mens Night Out for Pride, The Cage, 32 Newark Street, Hoboken, NJ. Co-Sponsored by The Cage |
For more information about any of the events or volunteering during JCLGO’s
Pride Week, go to www.jclgo.org.
This event is brought to you by JCLGO and in part by support from our
event sponsors: Bank of America, The Cage, CareerBuilder, Duggal Visual
Solutions, Go Magazine, Hamilton Square, Hard Grove Café, Hyatt, Icelandair, KTU, Liberty Travel, LITM, Manhunt.net, Metro Homes, Metro Source, Minuteman Press, Next Magazine, NJ Transit, Out In Jersey, Pershing, Star Bar, Synergy Fitness, Verizon Wireless and Wachovia. JCLGO especially wishes to thank Hudson County, County Executive Thomas A. DeGise, Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, the City Council, and Jersey City’s
Office of Cultural Affairs.
Host Organization:
Jersey City Lesbian + Gay Outreach (JCLGO), a nonprofit community organization founded in 2001, produces Jersey City's Annual LGBT Pride Week & Pride Festival and is a driving force in developing and unifying the growing LGBT community in Jersey City. JCLGO is committed to being a vital voice in Jersey City, bringing the LGBT community together.