In Their Own Words
Members of Boise's GLBTQ community talk about what pride means to them
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A314516A few weeks ago, BW's editorial staff sat around the office's oblong, stainless steel conference table to brainstorm ideas for our annual Pride issue. It was slow going.
Compared to recent years, the last year in Idaho has been relatively quiet on the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender front—unless, of course, a game of footsie in a Minnesota airport restroom counts as GLBTQ news.
Without a clear course of action in harder-hitting news, we focused on a feature along less serious lines. We considered writing about a shopping trip with Boise's most out-and-about drag queen. Someone suggested compiling a list of the dwindling GLBTQ support organizations in the state. We almost settled on a look at being gay or lesbian in small town Idaho. But none of our ideas seemed worthwhile.
