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While June is recognized nationally as Pride Month, Monroe County’s LGBTQ+ community has traditionally celebrated Pride in July. 

In celebration of Monroe County’s Bicentennial and the 50th Anniversary of the county’s first organized Pride events, a selection of panels from the “Forging Alliances: Rochester’s LGBT Story” project are on display at several county-owned facilities.

You can view panels at the following locations:

• Gordon A. Howe Monroe County Office Building
  39 W. Main St., Rochester, NY 14614
• City Place
  50 Fitzhugh St. North, Rochester, NY 14614
• The Roger Robach Community Center
  180 Beach Ave., Rochester, NY 14612
• Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County Rundel Memorial Building
  115 South Ave., Rochester, NY 14604
• Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport
  1200 Brooks Ave., Rochester, NY 14624
• Henrietta Department of Motor Vehicles Office
  1225 Jefferson Road Suit A 26A, Rochester, NY 14623
• Greece Department of Motor Vehicles Office
  152 Greece Ridge Center Dr., Rochester, NY 14626

The panels - originally written, organized and displayed by the Library and Archives of the Out Alliance - details decades of struggle and progress as Rochester’s and the nation’s LGBTQ+ community sought acceptance and recognition of their civil rights. View panels here by clicking the link below.

Monroe County is proud to be a sponsor of 2022 Pride events, including the 2022 Pride Picnic from noon to 6 p.m. July 10, 2022 at Genesee Valley Park, the ESL Federal Credit Union ROC Pride Parade at 1 p.m. July 16 on Park Avenue and the ESL Federal Credit Union ROC Pride Fest, from noon to 8 p.m. at Cobbs Hill Park. 

Pride Panels Gallery

Click any of the preview images below to view the larger version.