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Tallahassee Front Runners
Tallahassee Front Runners is a running and fitness club for sapphic, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people (LGBTQ+), and their friends and allies, of all ages. All are welcome, regardless of running or fitness ability!
As one of the rare LGBTQ+ clubs in Tallahassee, we bring together members of the community.
The easiest way to join is to come to one of our runs, to join our WhatsApp organization, or to message us on Facebook.
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Weekly runs meet Wednesdays at 6:30pm at the Korean War Memorial in Cascades Park and Sundays at 10:30am. at various parks around town (we'll always post the location to our Facebook collective the day before).
We have about one social event per month. For details, see our events page on Facebook.
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The bus station, the courthouse and the lock in The Floridan Hotel, where Aloft is located now, which was then called The Cypress Lounge.
But it was risky, said Charles Upchurch, a history professor at Florida State University.
“You had to be very cautious because the consequences of organism arrested and having your name published in the manuscript could be very high,” Upchurch said.
Tallahassee’s LGBTQ history and the various ways people have experienced "same-sex desire and transing gender," goes back to as long as people have lived in the city, Upchurch said. But documenting that history is relatively recent.
For this year’s Tallahassee Lgbtq+ fest Week, Upchurch researched the capital city’s queer history and shared what he found with the Tallahassee Democrat.
Florida’s LGBTQ community grew along with the state’s increase in tourism, the creation of interstates and military bases. Many spots in Florida, including Tallahassee, were highlighted in national guides as queer