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Michael Jepson attended the first Spokane Pride event in 1992 when he was 26.
In 1991, Michael Jepson was at one of Spokane’s few gay bars when a lesbian friend came to him with shocking news.
“Oh my God, you’re not going to believe this,” Jepson recalls the friend saying. “There’s going to be a Pride parade in Spokane.”
“Really?” he replied. “In Spokane?”
Jepson was stunned. Spokane wasn’t a very friendly place for LGBTQ+ people back then, he
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