Organizers reflect on 30 years of Pride in Spokane and the Inland Northwest — and the challenges ahead

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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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