Brady Street Festival
Milwaukee
Summary
The GPU News reported on both a Spring and Fall Festival in the mid-1970s. The September 1974 issue of GPU News for example reported: "The Fall Brady Street Festival was held this year on Sunday, September 1.
As usual, Brady Street was closed from Oakland and Farwell to Humboldt Street, with arts and crafts booths lining both sides of the street." (View the full article from GPU News below.) During its heyday, the Brady Street Festival was one of the fledgling gay community's best means of communicating with the general public and locating other gay people. The Gay Peoples Union (GPU) had information booths at the Festival for quite a few years in the 1970s. July 1973s GPU News reported: