Tucson’s 42nd annual Pride Parade celebrated
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By JOE GIDDENS
You could hear the gleeful voices of the students from Rincon-University High School’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” as the participants of the “2019 Pride in the Desert” got ready.
“Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me,” they sang.
The 42nd annual Tucson Pride in the Desert Parade and Festival took place Sept. 28.
This year’s theme was “Rise Up” for the Stonewall Riots’ 50th anniversary.
The theme was of particular significance to one parade participant. Ira Nadborne was born in Brooklyn and came out in 1965, which caused “all hell to break loose” in the house. Later, he was sent for conversion therapy and was abandoned by his family.
Four years later, he was living in Greenwich Village behind the Stonewall I...