I will become 80 in August, so excuse my memory, but yes I was a founding member and on the first board of Identity's predecessor, the Alaska Gay community center. As such we were instrumental in Elaine Noble's visit in 1977, as well as Leonard Matlovich's later visit. The early parades involved input from various organizations and businesses, not just the center. More accurate details could be verified by reviewing a scrapbook that is, I believe, now at the library of the University of Alaska, Anchorage. That and copies of the monthly newsletter the center published in the late '70s would contain articles of events from that time.