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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE Pride Guide 2001

Rack 'em and crack 'em in eight-ball pool tournament

by Greg Summers

Cleveland-You think you have what it takes to be the best? If so, bring it on! Rack 'em and crack 'em is the battle cry heard throughout seven Cleveland bars since June 5, as the the Second Annual Cleveland Pride Eight-Ball Shoot-Off began.

The tournament is a single elimination tournament. Contestants will play at each individual bar for a prize of $25. The winner and runner-up of the bar will then go on to

Rockies on Thursday, June 14, at 8 p.m. and play for a prize of $300 for the winner and $50 to the runner-up.

This is an annual event sponsored by Cleveland Pride, and a traveling trophy will also be awarded at the finals to the winning bar's representative. This trophy—and bragging rights will stay with that bar until next year's playoff and the crowning of a new winner.

Come cheer on your favorite pool player or enter the tournament yourself for a chance

at a very good prize. The preliminaries began on June 5 at Rockies, June 6 at the Leather Stallion and June 7 at the Tool Shed. The tournament continues June 9 at the Rec Room; June 11 at Muggs, June 12 at Victory's, and finishes up June 13 at the Grid.

You can register at one or all of the bars for your chance to win this $300pot. Registration is $15 per person for each event that is entered. Pride committee members will be present at all preliminaries and at the Shoot-Off to answer any questions about

Pride or to sign you up as a volunteer.

The official Imagine Pride tee shirt will be sold at all venues at a pre-event discount and some very nice prizes will be offered in a raffle to benefit Pride.

For questions or information you may call the Pride line at 216-371-0214 and leave a message for Greg, or e-mail TriCGuy@aol.com.

Greg Summers is the vice president of Cleveland Pride.

Imagine if everyone came to the Pride parade

by Ron Grey

Imagination is a wonderful thing, and some of the things that we imagine really can

come true. Lately, as coordinator of the Cleveland Pride Parade, I've been imagining what the parade for 2001 could be.

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Simone, Ms. Black Gay Ohio; Marcia Lane, board member of BlackOut Unlimited, and Bruce Kriete of Cleveland's P-FLAG, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, and Safe Schools Are For Everyone.

The floats, streamers, signs and decorations are in the process of creation and the parade applications are pouring in. All that is needed are the throngs of people. So, to our

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I imagined six grand marshals, leading throngs of racially diverse people down Euclid Avenue, waving streamers and flags, laughing, shouting, demanding and loving and all on a joyous sunny day. I imagined marching bands and huge floats, pulled by elephants and giraffes.

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Some of it has already come true. Six grand marshals will climb aboard the Euclid Beach Rocket Car to lead the parade. Listed on the facing page, they are six of Cleveland's finest citizens and represent our great diversity.

The grand marshals are Judy Montgomery, co-founder of the Cleveland chapter of the GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network; Larry Webb, co-founder and board member of BlackOut Unlimited; Patrick Shepherd, one of the founders of the Cleveland Stonewall Democrats; Ashley

Columbus family, this is an open invitation to all of you to experience Cleveland's parade and festival. The same invitation goes out to Akron and Youngstown and Toledo and Canton and Massillon and Warren and Dayton and Oberlin and Bowling Green and Ashtabula and Cincinnati.

Imagination is a wonderful thing, and some things we imagine really can come true. Now we need marching bands, and does anyone out there have elephants and giraffes? I will see you at the parade on June 16. Assemble at 12:30, rally at 1:00. and the parade steps off at 2:00, from East 18th and Euclid Ave., in downtown Cleveland.

Ron Grey is the parade coordinator for Cleveland Pride.

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