Pride Week draws nearly 500,000

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2008/07/02/72167414?com=add
7/2/2008

"Fifty daring GLBT supporters marched down the Nicollet Mall in 1972, ending with a small picnic in Loring Park . Thirty-six years later, nearly 500,000 people enjoyed the third-largest pride week in the country with a festival in that very same park."