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when most the events weren't faced with torrential downpours, as was the case in 2008.

Cleveland and Columbus were put in the unenviable position of "competing" with each other because of construction in Bicentennial Park in Columbus and another event in Voinovich Park in Cleveland on a weekend that would have allowed the two to simply switch days. Organizers of the two festivals, however, viewed each other as complementing those efforts instead of detracting from them, and both events had admirable attendance.

Interest was also high at the inaugural Youngstown Pride Festival on June 6, which drew around 1,000 people

Cleveland NAACP president George Forbes came out against efforts to repeal the city's domestic partner registry.

out for a day of entertainment on Phelps Street.

This was double the organizers' most generous projection before the event.

"Carlos Rivera, one of the other organizers, said before the event that he would be happy if we had 50 people show up," organizer Anita Davis recalled. "Kim Akins, the third organizer,

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though we would get a couple hundred. I thought we'd get about 500." "We were all pleased to have guessed wrong," she said.

Cleveland Black Pride's 12th annual weekend of festivities was scaled back this year, but still had its traditional White Party, two church services. and the annual Family Picnic, which returned to Edgewater Park August 9.

While Black Pride was not lacking in enthusiasm or even attendance, what it needs is new blood, according to committee member Lena Roberts.

"The committee is open for new members," she noted. "Next year, as we say every year, is going to be bigger and better."

"Or at least better," Roberts laughed. "Unless a big donor comes through, or numerous medium-sized donors.'

Later in the month, Dancin' in the Streets celebrated its 25th anniversary with a return to its original prices, and increased attendance proved that to be a good move for the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland benefit.

John Katsaros, owner of Twist nightclub and one of the organizers of the event, estimated attendance at 3,500 people over the course of the day, which more than made up for lowering the cost to $5 in advance or $10 at the gate.

"Because of that price, it's a volume-predicated event now," he said. "Because it's the 25th anniversary, we wanted to bring it back to 1984."

The last big event of the year was the Cleveland LGBT Center's Winter Party on December 11, which was immediately preceded by a VIP reception to bid farewell to Sue Doerfer, who is leaving the center to take the helm of Equality Ohio, the statewide LGBT advocacy organization. Lynne Bowman, Equality Ohio's current executive director, is moving to the national Equality Federation as its director of programs and services.

"Sue brings knowledge of Ohio, executive director experience, including fundraising, and she is well versed in the equality movement," Equality Ohio board president Rev. Mike Castle said.

"In a way I'm not leaving the center, because now the entire LGBT population of Ohio is my center. I'll continue to work with Cleveland, and now include the rest of the state in my work," Doerfer said.

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