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Friday to Sunday, June 29 to July 1 Cincinnati Pride, main festival and parade on Saturday at Sawyer Point, grand marshals Chris Seelbach, Lynne Lefebvre and Adam Hoover, with Hawt Commoditi, Nxt Generation, Kevin Thornton, Tom Goss, Jeremiah Clark and headliner Frenchie Davis; www.cincinnatipride.org. Youngstown Pride Celebration, Friday reception at Mahoning County Democratic Party headquarters; parade 12 noon on Saturday, line up at 10 am on Woodland at Market St, festival begins 12:30 pm on Federal Street; family picnic Sunday at B&O Station Park at 1 pm, Youngstown; prideyoungstown@yahoo.com,

www.prideyoungstown.org.

Saturday, June 30

Una Cena Progressiva, part of the Cleveland LGBT Center's TaDa! Dinner Series, limited to 30 guests, $65,5 pm, east side Cleveland location; www.lgbtcleveland.org.

Cowboy-Cowgirl Picnic, part of the Cleveland LGBT Center's TaDa! Dinner Series, limited to 25 guests, $40, 6:30 pm, east side Cleveland location; www.lgbtcleveland.org. Pride Night with the Lake County Captains, pre-game drag softball 5 pm, post-game fireworks, Classic Park, 35300 Vine Street, Eastlake (at SOM Center Road, Ohio 91, just north of the Ohio 2 freeway); www.captainsbaseball.com, use promo code "Pride" at checkout for discounted tickets. Solstice 2012, international music festival at the Cleveland Museum of Art, featuring Debo Band, Gang Gang Dance, Novalima and others, entry times 7:30 pm and 10 pm, $60 earlier entry, $30 members, 10 pm entry $25, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland; www.clevelandart.org/ events/specialevents/Solstice.aspx.

Pride Ball with Jennifer Holliday, Broadway and screen star headlines dance party with DJ Jules, 9 pm doors, 12 midnight show, Adonis, 4601 Kellogg Ave, Cincinnati; 513-871-1542, www.adonisthenightclub.com.

Sunday, July 1

Desayuno Colombiano, Latino lunch to benefit the Cleveland Aquatic Team's trip to Outgames in Antwerp, 12 noon, $20, 20120 Lorain Rd. Apt. 501, Fairview Park (Cleveland); 216-973-4547.

Big Preview Concert, presented by Muse, Cincinnati's women's choir, World Choir Games preview, GALA Festival "Bon Voyage," with the Martin Luther King Coalition Chorale, 4 pm, free will offering accepted, St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church, 320 Resor Ave, Cincinnati; www.musechoir.org.

Wednesday, July 4

Independence Day Cookout, presented by Asians and Friends Cleveland, side dishes provided, bring your own entrée to be cooked, $4, $2 members, private home in Cleveland Heights; www.afcleveland.org.

Saturday, July 7

Northcoast Pride Community Picnic, hot dogs and hamburgers provided, bring a side dish, chairs, blankets, 2 pm, Wave Pool Park at the Battery Street Marina, Miegs and Water Street, Sandusky; northcoastpride2011@ gmail.com.

Friday to Sunday, July 13 to 22

Mamma Mia, hit Broadway musical with the music of ABBA, about a young bride's search for her biological father, $10-$70, Palace The-

ater, Playhouse Square, 1615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland; www.playhousesquare.org, 216241-6000.

Saturday, July 14

Forest Hills Progressive Dinner, part of the Clevleand LGBT Center's TaDa! Dinner Series, limited to 50 guests, $75, 4 pm, east side Cleveland location; www.lgbtcleveland.org. Volunteer Day at Cleveland Food Bank, organized by Asians and Friends-Cleveland, 8 am-noon, RSVP at www.afcleveland.org. Northcoast Pride Cruise, pre-party 6 pm, venue TBA, cruise leaves the Goodtime I dock, 109 West Shoreline Drive at Columbus Ave, 9:30 pm, $20, Sandusky; northcoastpride2011 @gmail.com.

Wednesday, July 18

Summer Picnic at Edgewater with LGBT Youth, part of the Clevland LGBT Center's TaDa! Dinner Series, limited to 75 guests, $10, 5 pm, west side Cleveland location; www.lgbtcleveland.org.

Insight Monthly Dinner, Cleveland's premier LGBT social dinner group; 216-200-9569 for information and reservations.

Thursday to Sunday, July 19 to 22

Old Lesbians Organizing for Change annual gathering, this year's theme is "Bridges to Justice: 21st Century Activism," with Ferron, Carolyn Gage, Vera Martin, Charlotte Bunch, Barbara Smith and many others presenters and performers, Hilton Boston Woburn, Boston, Mass.; www.oloc.org.

Saturday, July 21

International Film Series, potluck dinner and film screening presented by Asians and Friends Cleveland; 6 pm dinner, 7:30 pm film, $4, $2 members, private home in Garfield Hts. (Cleveland); www.afcleveland.org.

Wine Tasting at Ohio City Loft, part of the Clevleand LGBT Center's TaDa! Dinner Series, limited to 20 guests, $40, 7 pm, west side Cleveland location; www.lgbtcleveland.org.

Sunday to Friday, July 22 to 27

International AIDS Conference, 19th gathering of HIV and AIDS advocates, leaders, policymakers, scientists and people with HIV, Washington, D.C.; www.aids2012.org.

Monday, July 23

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris, to be discussed at the Ten Percent Book Club, 7:30 pm, Liberation UCC, 13714 Madison Ave, Lakewood (Cleveland); 215-521-5556.

Friday, July 27

Cocktails, Coversation and the Constitution, cocktail reception kicking off the ACLU of Ohio biennial conference, with LGBTheros Zach Walls, author of My Two Moms, and Becky Collins and her son Zach, who was bullied in his high school because he is gay, $35, 5 pm, Sheraton Columbus Hotel at Capitol Square, 75 East State St, Columbus; https:// salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50277/donate_page/

2012registration, www.acluohio.org/conference 2012.

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Dancin' in the Streets, 28th party to benefit the AIDS Taskforce of Cleveland, 3 to 11 pm, Clifton Blvd. between West 116th and 117th Streets; 216-221-2333, www.facebook.com/ AIDSTaskforce

Highlights of upcoming weeks

For a detailed list of events extending months into the future, see our web site: www.gaypeopleschronicle.com

Tuesday to Sunday, August 7 to 12

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, 37th annual event, multiple stages, dozens of performers, thousands of women, near Hart in western Michigan; www.michfest.com.

Wednesday to Sunday, August 8 to 12

Coph Nia 2012, Pagan festival for gay, bi, queer and questioning men, French Lick, Indiana; www.cophnia.org.

Saturday, August 11

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Toledo Pride, parade steps off in downtown Toledo at noon, ends at the festival in Levis Square; http://toledopride.com.

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