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Capital Pride (Washington)
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Capital Pride is an annual LGBT pride festival
held in early June each year in Washington, D.C.
As of 2007, the festival was planned and produced by Whitman-Walker Clinic
, and is the fourth-largest gay pride event in the United States
.
bookstore Lambda Rising
, organized the city's first gay pride event, a one-day community block party held on 20th Street N.W. between R and S Streets N.W. in Washington, D.C. (the same block where Lambda Rising was then located). Two pickup trucks, one loaded with beer and another with soft drinks, served the crowd. About 2,000 people attended and visited about a dozen booths and vendors. In a surprising political move indicative of the growing political power of gays and lesbians in the city, several candidates for the D.C. City Council
also attended and shook hands for several hours.
By 1979, the festival was drawing more than 10,000 attendees. Washington Mayor Marion Barry
, elected the previous November, attended Gay Pride that year—as he would for the rest of his time in office.
The P Street Festival Committee formed in 1980 to take over the growing event. The Committee established a board of directors to oversee planning and administer the festival's finances, and widened planning and participation to include a number of prominent LGBT organizations in the D.C. metro area. Gay Pride Day (as the festival was then known) moved that year to Francis Junior High School at 24th and N Streets N.W., next to Rock Creek Park
. By 1981, the parade route had also become well-established. The parade began at 16th Street N.W. and Meridian Hill Park
, traveled along Columbia Road N.W. and then Connecticut Avenue N.W., and ended at Dupont Circle
.
1983 was the year the first woman and person of color was named Grand Marshall of the Gay Pride Day parade. In 1984, festival organizers began bestowing the "Heroes of Pride" award to members of racial and ethnic minorities who make a difference in their communities.
Attendance at Gay Pride Day events reached 11,000 people in 1981,, 15,000 in 1982,, and 20,000 in 1983. By 1984, the one-day festival had become a week-long series of meetings, speeches, dances, art exhibits, and parties. At its 10th anniversary in 1985, D.C. Gay Pride Day drew an estimated 28,000 attendees to the street festival and parade. But attendance began varying dramatically from year to year in the late 1980s. In 1986, only about 7,000 people watched the parade, and another 1,000 stayed for events at Francis Junior High. A year later, attendance was estimated variously between 7,000 and 10,000 people. Attendance stabilized by the 1990s, however. The parade and festival reached more than 25,000 attendees in 1994, and soared to more than 100,000 by 1996.
gay community sponsored the first "Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day" on May 25, 1991. The event was created not as a competitor to the June gay pride event but rather as a way of enhancing the visibility of the African American gay and lesbian community.
The same year, the Gay Pride Day parade and festival moved away from its traditional date for the first time. Beginning in 1975, the event had normally been held on Father's Day
. But organizers moved the event a week forward in 1991 to give gay men a chance to spend the day with their families. 1991 was also the year that the street festival expanded to more than 200 booths, and the first year that active-duty and retired American military personnel marched in the parade. The latter event made national headlines when U.S. Air Force
Captain Greg Greeley, who led the active-duty group, was later questioned by military security officers and told his pending discharge was on hold because of his participation in Gay Pride day. No further action against Greeley was taken, and he eventually received an honorable discharge.
The festival began to suffer from financial difficulties in the early 1990s. Rain during the parade and street festival significantly reduced attendance several years in a row. Unfortunately, festival organizers had decided, as a cost-saving move, to not take out weather insurance. The festival lost significant amounts of money, and came close to bankruptcy.
In 1995, One In Ten
, a D.C.-based arts organization which hosted the Reel Affirmations
film festival, assumed responsibility for organizing Gay Pride Day events. One In Ten moved the street festival from Francis Junior High to Freedom Plaza
near the White House
on Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
The parade route also changed. Instead of traveling westward to finish at Francis Junior High School, the parade now began at the school, moved east along P Street N.W. to 14th Street N.W., and then south on 14th Street to Freedom Plaza.
However, the financial and organizational strain of producing the event proved too heavy for this relatively small arts group. In 1997, Whitman-Walker Clinic joined One In Ten as a co-sponsor of the festival, and the event was re-named Capital Pride. The street festival was moved off Freedom Plaza and onto Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. between 14th and 10th Streets N.W. Corporate sponsorships also rose dramatically, reflecting the festival's growing commercial nature. Corporate sponsorships reached $247,000 in 1999, up from $80,000 in 1998.
building was in the background. As a cost-saving move, in 2002 the parade was moved to early evening on Saturday while the festival continued to occur on Sunday afternoon. The same year, the number of parade contingents reached 200 for the first time.
In 2004, Capital Pride reached 100,000 attendees. The event attracted more than 200,000 people in 2006, making it the fourth-largest gay pride event in the United States. The festival now includes four major dance parties, a youth prom, a transgender dinner, and a Mr. and Ms. Capital Pride Leather competition.
On January 11, 2008, Whitman-Walker Clinic disclosed, for the first time in years, the financial status of Capital Pride. WWC revealed that the 2007 Capital Pride festival ran a deficit of $32,795 on $167,103 in revenue. The Clinic also reported that this included reimbursing itself for $100,000 in "up-front money" to pay for festival-related expenses occurred far in advance of the festival. Twelve other local organizations were reimbursed $28,000 in up-front money as well.
The event was initially organized in 1975 by Deacon Maccubbin, owner of Lambda Rising Bookstore, with the help of the bookstore's employees, volunteers and a part time executive director, Bob Carpenter. Maccubbin and Lambda Rising hosted the event for the first five years of its existence, until it grew to 10,000 attendees and spread over three blocks. At that point, it had become too large for the space available so Maccubbin began looking for an alternative location. In 1980, a group of community activists incorporated as the P Street Festival Committee and Maccubbin turned the event over to that group. Financial problems and growing concerns about the organization's lack of inclusiveness led the Committee to disband in 1990 in favor of a successor organization, Pride of Washington. Further financial problems led Pride of Washington to transfer the event to a local LGBT arts organization, One In Ten, in 1995. In 1997, One In Ten partnered with Whitman-Walker Clinic to co-produce the festival. Whitman-Walker Clinic became the sole sponsor in 2000, and as of 2007 is still the sole sponsor of Capital Pride. The event is billed as a fund-raiser for the Clinic, although net revenues are also shared with other organizations.
A community board of 11 LGBT organizations in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area assist Whitman-Walker Clinic in organizing Capital Pride. Whitman-Walker Clinic assigns a full-time staff member to Capital Pride, making this individual the event's only full-time employee. This individual acts as the executive director of the festival, and coordinates day-to-day operations, secures sponsorships, and oversees logistics. The current community board includes:
Shortly after Capital Pride 2005, Robert York, the Whitman-Walker staffer who had served as executive director of Capital Pride since 1999, unexpectedly resigned from the Clinic and as Capital Pride organizer. York's departure followed a series of resignations by the Clinic's upper- and middle-level managers. York was replaced by Clinic staff member David Mallory.
Capital Pride has continued to suffer financial problems as well. In the summer of 2005, Whitman-Walker Clinic asked the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights legislative and political lobbying group, for an emergency donation of $30,000. The Clinic also asked D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams
to waive more than $40,000 in street closing and police overtime fees. Unnamed sources quoted by the Washington Blade, a local LGBT newspaper, said that Whitman-Walker's financial problems were spilling over into Capital Pride planning and that without the additional assistance the festival might have been significantly curtailed. Whitman-Walker officials strongly disputed the claims without denying that the financial requests had been made (and granted).
Financial difficulties at Whitman-Walker Clinic also led to speculation that the health organization may seek to spin off Capital Pride as an independent body or permit another group to take it over. The Washington Blade has quoted unnamed Whitman-Walker staffers as saying that Capital Pride consumes a significant amount of the Clinic's time, resources and staff but does not generate large revenues in return. In April 2005, The Center, an organization attempting to build a gay and lesbian community center in the District of Columbia, approached Whitman-Walker officials and asked if they would turn Capital Pride over to them. Whitman-Walker refused the offer, citing The Center's own financial difficulties and small staff.
Speculation turned to fact in 2008. The second week of January 2008, Whitman-Walker Clinic issued a Request for Proposal
for one or more groups to replace WWC as the organizer and sponsor of Capital Pride. The deadline for receipt of proposals was January 25, 2008, with a decision to be made by March 14, 2008. At least three groups, including Westminster Presbyterian Church, had submitted proposals by January 11, 2008. Whitman-Walker said it will continue to play a role in Capital Pride, but would no longer be the event's primary sponsor and organizer.
According to Capital Pride organizers, the 35th anniversary of Capital Pride in 2010 saw record attendance of more than 250,000 people at its Pride Street Festival.
In 2006, Capital Pride was featured in the comedy film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
.
One In Ten sponsored a second exhibit about Capital Pride's history in 2007. The exhibit was installed at The Sumner School, a city-owned museum in a historic former school building in midtown D.C. The exhibit ran from March to June 2007.
Gay pride parade
Pride parades for the LGBT community are events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture. The events also at times serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage...
held in early June each year in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
As of 2007, the festival was planned and produced by Whitman-Walker Clinic
Whitman-Walker Clinic
Whitman-Walker Health , , is the largest nongovernmental HIV/AIDS health care organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It has historically served a primarily LGBT clientele...
, and is the fourth-largest gay pride event in the United States
United States
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.
1970s
The festival was first held in 1975. Deacon Maccubbin, owner of the LGBTLGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
bookstore Lambda Rising
Lambda Rising
Lambda Rising, an LGBT bookstore that operated from 1974 to 2010 in Washington, D.C..Founded by Deacon Maccubbin in 1974 with 250 titles, it was known for its wide selection of books, ranging from queer theory and religion to erotica, as well as DVDs, music CDs and gifts.The bookstore was...
, organized the city's first gay pride event, a one-day community block party held on 20th Street N.W. between R and S Streets N.W. in Washington, D.C. (the same block where Lambda Rising was then located). Two pickup trucks, one loaded with beer and another with soft drinks, served the crowd. About 2,000 people attended and visited about a dozen booths and vendors. In a surprising political move indicative of the growing political power of gays and lesbians in the city, several candidates for the D.C. City Council
Council of the District of Columbia
The Council of the District of Columbia is the legislative branch of the local government of the District of Columbia. As permitted in the United States Constitution, the District is not part of any U.S. state and is instead overseen directly by the federal government...
also attended and shook hands for several hours.
By 1979, the festival was drawing more than 10,000 attendees. Washington Mayor Marion Barry
Marion Barry
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. is an American Democratic politician who is currently serving as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, representing DC's Ward 8. Barry served as the second elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995...
, elected the previous November, attended Gay Pride that year—as he would for the rest of his time in office.
1980s
Rock Creek Park
Rock Creek Park is a large urban natural area with public park facilities that bisects Washington, D.C. The park is administered by the National Park Service.-Rock Creek Park:The main section of the park contains , or , along the Rock Creek Valley...
. By 1981, the parade route had also become well-established. The parade began at 16th Street N.W. and Meridian Hill Park
Meridian Hill Park
Meridian Hill Park, is located in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Columbia Heights in the United States. The 12 acres of landscaped grounds are maintained by the National Park Service as part of Rock Creek Park, but are not contiguous with the main part of that park...
, traveled along Columbia Road N.W. and then Connecticut Avenue N.W., and ended at Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle is a traffic circle, park, neighborhood, and historic district in Northwest Washington, D.C. The traffic circle is located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue NW, Connecticut Avenue NW, New Hampshire Avenue NW, P Street NW, and 19th Street NW...
.
1983 was the year the first woman and person of color was named Grand Marshall of the Gay Pride Day parade. In 1984, festival organizers began bestowing the "Heroes of Pride" award to members of racial and ethnic minorities who make a difference in their communities.
Attendance at Gay Pride Day events reached 11,000 people in 1981,, 15,000 in 1982,, and 20,000 in 1983. By 1984, the one-day festival had become a week-long series of meetings, speeches, dances, art exhibits, and parties. At its 10th anniversary in 1985, D.C. Gay Pride Day drew an estimated 28,000 attendees to the street festival and parade. But attendance began varying dramatically from year to year in the late 1980s. In 1986, only about 7,000 people watched the parade, and another 1,000 stayed for events at Francis Junior High. A year later, attendance was estimated variously between 7,000 and 10,000 people. Attendance stabilized by the 1990s, however. The parade and festival reached more than 25,000 attendees in 1994, and soared to more than 100,000 by 1996.
1990s
The District's African AmericanAfrican American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
gay community sponsored the first "Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day" on May 25, 1991. The event was created not as a competitor to the June gay pride event but rather as a way of enhancing the visibility of the African American gay and lesbian community.
The same year, the Gay Pride Day parade and festival moved away from its traditional date for the first time. Beginning in 1975, the event had normally been held on Father's Day
Father's Day
Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June but it is also celebrated widely on other days...
. But organizers moved the event a week forward in 1991 to give gay men a chance to spend the day with their families. 1991 was also the year that the street festival expanded to more than 200 booths, and the first year that active-duty and retired American military personnel marched in the parade. The latter event made national headlines when U.S. Air Force
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
Captain Greg Greeley, who led the active-duty group, was later questioned by military security officers and told his pending discharge was on hold because of his participation in Gay Pride day. No further action against Greeley was taken, and he eventually received an honorable discharge.
The festival began to suffer from financial difficulties in the early 1990s. Rain during the parade and street festival significantly reduced attendance several years in a row. Unfortunately, festival organizers had decided, as a cost-saving move, to not take out weather insurance. The festival lost significant amounts of money, and came close to bankruptcy.
One In Ten (organization)
One In Ten is a non-profit, all-volunteer LGBT arts organization in Washington, D.C. Its largest program is Reel Affirmations, the third largest LGBT film festival in the United States and the largest all-volunteer film festival in the world.-Governance and history:One In Ten is overseen by a...
, a D.C.-based arts organization which hosted the Reel Affirmations
Reel Affirmations
Reel Affirmations is a non-profit, all-volunteer LGBT film festival in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1991 and held every year in mid-October, Reel Affirmations is the third largest LGBT film festival in the United States and the largest all-volunteer film festival in the world.-Organization:Reel...
film festival, assumed responsibility for organizing Gay Pride Day events. One In Ten moved the street festival from Francis Junior High to Freedom Plaza
Freedom Plaza
Freedom Plaza, originally known as Western Plaza, is an open plaza in Northwest Washington, D.C., United States, located at the corner of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, adjacent to Pershing Park. Constructed in 1980, the plaza is mostly composed of stone, inlaid with a depiction of parts...
near the White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
on Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Pennsylvania Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue is a street in Washington, D.C. that joins the White House and the United States Capitol. Called "America's Main Street", it is the location of official parades and processions, as well as protest marches...
The parade route also changed. Instead of traveling westward to finish at Francis Junior High School, the parade now began at the school, moved east along P Street N.W. to 14th Street N.W., and then south on 14th Street to Freedom Plaza.
However, the financial and organizational strain of producing the event proved too heavy for this relatively small arts group. In 1997, Whitman-Walker Clinic joined One In Ten as a co-sponsor of the festival, and the event was re-named Capital Pride. The street festival was moved off Freedom Plaza and onto Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. between 14th and 10th Streets N.W. Corporate sponsorships also rose dramatically, reflecting the festival's growing commercial nature. Corporate sponsorships reached $247,000 in 1999, up from $80,000 in 1998.
2000s
Whitman-Walker Clinic became the sole sponsor of Capital Pride in 2000. The festival was moved to Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. between 4th and 7th Streets N.W., and the festival's main stage repositioned so that the United States CapitolUnited States Capitol
The United States Capitol is the meeting place of the United States Congress, the legislature of the federal government of the United States. Located in Washington, D.C., it sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall...
building was in the background. As a cost-saving move, in 2002 the parade was moved to early evening on Saturday while the festival continued to occur on Sunday afternoon. The same year, the number of parade contingents reached 200 for the first time.
In 2004, Capital Pride reached 100,000 attendees. The event attracted more than 200,000 people in 2006, making it the fourth-largest gay pride event in the United States. The festival now includes four major dance parties, a youth prom, a transgender dinner, and a Mr. and Ms. Capital Pride Leather competition.
On January 11, 2008, Whitman-Walker Clinic disclosed, for the first time in years, the financial status of Capital Pride. WWC revealed that the 2007 Capital Pride festival ran a deficit of $32,795 on $167,103 in revenue. The Clinic also reported that this included reimbursing itself for $100,000 in "up-front money" to pay for festival-related expenses occurred far in advance of the festival. Twelve other local organizations were reimbursed $28,000 in up-front money as well.
Organization
Capital Pride was originally called Gay Pride Day. It changed its name to Gay and Lesbian Pride Day in 1981, and to Capital Pride in 2000.The event was initially organized in 1975 by Deacon Maccubbin, owner of Lambda Rising Bookstore, with the help of the bookstore's employees, volunteers and a part time executive director, Bob Carpenter. Maccubbin and Lambda Rising hosted the event for the first five years of its existence, until it grew to 10,000 attendees and spread over three blocks. At that point, it had become too large for the space available so Maccubbin began looking for an alternative location. In 1980, a group of community activists incorporated as the P Street Festival Committee and Maccubbin turned the event over to that group. Financial problems and growing concerns about the organization's lack of inclusiveness led the Committee to disband in 1990 in favor of a successor organization, Pride of Washington. Further financial problems led Pride of Washington to transfer the event to a local LGBT arts organization, One In Ten, in 1995. In 1997, One In Ten partnered with Whitman-Walker Clinic to co-produce the festival. Whitman-Walker Clinic became the sole sponsor in 2000, and as of 2007 is still the sole sponsor of Capital Pride. The event is billed as a fund-raiser for the Clinic, although net revenues are also shared with other organizations.
A community board of 11 LGBT organizations in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area assist Whitman-Walker Clinic in organizing Capital Pride. Whitman-Walker Clinic assigns a full-time staff member to Capital Pride, making this individual the event's only full-time employee. This individual acts as the executive director of the festival, and coordinates day-to-day operations, secures sponsorships, and oversees logistics. The current community board includes:
- Capital Area Interweave
- The Center
- D.C. Black Pride
- D.C. Radical FaeriesRadical FaeriesThe Radical Faeries are a loosely-affiliated, worldwide network and counter-cultural movement seeking to reject hetero-imitation and redefine queer identity through spirituality. The Radical Faerie movement started in the United States among gay men during the 1970s sexual and counterculture...
- DignityDignityUSADignityUSA is a U.S. organization with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts that "works for respect and justice" for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in the Roman Catholic Church and the world through education, advocacy and support...
/Washington - Gay Men's Chorus of Washington
- Human Rights CampaignHuman Rights CampaignThe Human Rights Campaign is the United States' largest LGBT advocacy group and lobbying organization; according to the HRC, it has more than one million members and supporters...
- The Mautner Project
- Metro D.C. PFLAGParents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and GaysParents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is a socio-political group of family members and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Its mission statement describes the goals of PFLAG as promoting health and well being of LGBT persons as well as actively supporting...
- National Youth Advocacy CoalitionNational Youth Advocacy CoalitionThe National Youth Advocacy Coalition, or NYAC, which ceased to operate on May 12, 2011 was a organization which sought to fight discrimination against and promote the leadership and wellness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth.NYAC was founded in 1993. At its...
- Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry
- One In TenOne In Ten (organization)One In Ten is a non-profit, all-volunteer LGBT arts organization in Washington, D.C. Its largest program is Reel Affirmations, the third largest LGBT film festival in the United States and the largest all-volunteer film festival in the world.-Governance and history:One In Ten is overseen by a...
Recent controversies
Capital Pride has continued to suffer financial problems as well. In the summer of 2005, Whitman-Walker Clinic asked the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights legislative and political lobbying group, for an emergency donation of $30,000. The Clinic also asked D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams
Anthony A. Williams
Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams is an American politician who served as the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. He had previously served as chief financial officer for the District, managing to balance the budget and achieve a surplus within two years of...
to waive more than $40,000 in street closing and police overtime fees. Unnamed sources quoted by the Washington Blade, a local LGBT newspaper, said that Whitman-Walker's financial problems were spilling over into Capital Pride planning and that without the additional assistance the festival might have been significantly curtailed. Whitman-Walker officials strongly disputed the claims without denying that the financial requests had been made (and granted).
Financial difficulties at Whitman-Walker Clinic also led to speculation that the health organization may seek to spin off Capital Pride as an independent body or permit another group to take it over. The Washington Blade has quoted unnamed Whitman-Walker staffers as saying that Capital Pride consumes a significant amount of the Clinic's time, resources and staff but does not generate large revenues in return. In April 2005, The Center, an organization attempting to build a gay and lesbian community center in the District of Columbia, approached Whitman-Walker officials and asked if they would turn Capital Pride over to them. Whitman-Walker refused the offer, citing The Center's own financial difficulties and small staff.
Speculation turned to fact in 2008. The second week of January 2008, Whitman-Walker Clinic issued a Request for Proposal
Request for Proposal
A request for proposal is issued at an early stage in a procurement process, where an invitation is presented for suppliers, often through a bidding process, to submit a proposal on a specific commodity or service. The RFP process brings structure to the procurement decision and is meant to...
for one or more groups to replace WWC as the organizer and sponsor of Capital Pride. The deadline for receipt of proposals was January 25, 2008, with a decision to be made by March 14, 2008. At least three groups, including Westminster Presbyterian Church, had submitted proposals by January 11, 2008. Whitman-Walker said it will continue to play a role in Capital Pride, but would no longer be the event's primary sponsor and organizer.
According to Capital Pride organizers, the 35th anniversary of Capital Pride in 2010 saw record attendance of more than 250,000 people at its Pride Street Festival.
Cultural references
In 2005, an exhibit at The Warehouse Gallery, an art gallery and museum in the District of Columbia, documented the history and meaning of Capital Pride for area residents. The exhibit, "Queering Sight—Queer Insight," opened on June 3, 2005, and ran for a month.In 2006, Capital Pride was featured in the comedy film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, often referred to simply as Borat, is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and distributed by 20th Century Fox...
.
One In Ten sponsored a second exhibit about Capital Pride's history in 2007. The exhibit was installed at The Sumner School, a city-owned museum in a historic former school building in midtown D.C. The exhibit ran from March to June 2007.