The 2012 Spencer Pride Festival takes place on Saturday, June 2 from 10 AM until 5 PM on the lawn of the Owen County Courthouse in Spencer (60 South Main Street). This year's festival will have a free all-day line-up of live entertainment, as well as a huge marketplace and activities for both adults as well as children. The Spencer Pride Festival is family-friendly and features free admission and parking. Please come join us as we celebrate 6 years of rural Hoosier LGBTQI Pride!
If you would like to make a financial contribution in support of our efforts, or if you are a 2012 Spencer Pride Festival vendor or sponsor who would like to make a payment , please click here to make a donation securely online via PayPal.
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Spencer Pride Quarterly Released
The Pride edition of the Spencer Pride Quarterly eNewsletter was released today. The issue is full of information about our upcoming Pride event including the entertainment lineup, roster of vendors in the Spencer Pride Festival marketplace, and other great information. You can find a copy of the Pride SPQ below.
Posted May 28, 2012 8:38 PM by Jonathan Balash
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Organizations Encouraged to Take Advantage of Current Low Registration Fees
The first vendor deadline for the 2012 Spencer Pride Festival is fast approaching. On May 1st, the registration fees will increase. Heading into the last week of April, we are pleased to report that sign-ups are up more than 30% over last year. We expect many more organizations to sign up between now and the festival.Organizations that have not yet registered for booth space are encouraged to do so before May 1st in order to take advantage of the lower cost and to ensure inclusion in the official event program.In addition, due to deadlines of our printer, it is unlikely that many of the organizations which sign up after May 1st will be listed on the official ...
Posted Apr 26, 2012 8:22 PM by Jonathan Balash
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Foreign Exchange Student Wins Spencer Pride Design Contest
SPENCER, IN - This week, organizers of Spencer Pride Inc. announced the winner of their first-ever t-shirt design contest. The winner, Nik Sonnenschein, is a foreign exchange student who lives in Minnesota with his American host family. Sonnenschein is from Kassel, a town in central Germany.
Sonnenschein’s winning design, which is featured on the right, is a simple yet creative message. It features two origami birds with the festival theme “Free to Be ____” placed in bold typeset beneath them.
Spencer Pride, Inc. began the t-shirt design contest on March 1st. Everyone was welcome to submit entries for the contest and each individual was permitted to submit as many entries as they wished. The winning design was ...
Posted May 1, 2012 8:33 PM by Spencer Pride
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Report on Worldwide Pride Climate Just Released
The 2012 PrideRadar has just been released by InterPride and we are pleased to be able to share it with you. InterPride is the international association of pride organizers. Spencer Pride Inc. has been a proud member of InterPride for the past three years. The PrideRadar publication is a report from InterPride's Human Right's Committee that provides an overview of the pride atmosphere around the world, region by region. According to PrideRadar, "This year InterPride is celebrating its 30th Anniversary and to mark this occasion we have produced this inaugural PrideRadar. The intention of this publication is to collect all information about Pride events around the world and to monitor the “climate” in which they are taking place ...
Posted Mar 11, 2012 7:42 AM by Jonathan Balash
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Spencer Pride Nix Six Video Now Available
Here is our video in support of the Nix Six campaign, which is seeking to prevent the Marriage Discrimination Amendment from continuing through the Indiana Legislature in the 2013 session. This video does not have any music, but a video with music may be available soon if there is an interest in it. We will also be putting a bloopers reel online as well, so stay tuned for that!
Posted Mar 5, 2012 7:23 PM by Jonathan Balash
Spencer Pride, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that seeks to
proudly and honestly represent, support, and celebrate
the values and diversity of the LGBTQI community and its allies.
We do this by holding the annual Spencer Pride Festival (SPF) each year on the lawn of the Owen County Courthouse in Spencer, just 17 miles west of Bloomington and Indiana University (nestled in the rolling hills of south central Indiana). This mission is also supported by organizing a variety of other educational events focused in rural communities throughout the year. Donations to Spencer Pride, Inc. are deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.
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