Gay Pride Parades
 

Are they all on the same weekend? Is it like a tribute to the whole NY stonewall thing?

-Rudey

The Toronto parade is this Sunday.

Darn. I forgot to check the local gay pride calendar.

But they have been putting up banners on one of the major streets downtown.

Kansas City's was a couple of weeks ago... and Omaha's was last weekend.

The New York Gay Pride Parade is Sunday June 27th.

boston's was last week or the week before.

Honolulu had their LGBT Festival and parade last weekend.

Does anyone know why it's all around now? Chicago and Tel Aviv are having theirs this weekend.

-Rudey

Are you going down Boystown? I should find out when DC's is...

ETA: I missed it, it was the 12th :(

Yes. I have my own float.

-Rudey

The summer is "Pride Season" in general......Stonewall happened in the summer....I think it's just a coincidence.

I've never had the chance to go to the parade and I'll miss it this year too. :(

The actual parade in Vancouver is August 1st, but there is a tonne of other actvities going on surrounding the parade...

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Vancouver Pride Society has expanded festivities this year. Plans include:Gala Dinner, June 20;resurrected Stonewall Festival June 26 in Grandview Park and a dance that night at the Wise Hall; Picnic in the Park July 24 @ Prospect Point; Queerstock, five nights of free acoustical music at Alexandra Park July 25-27,29,30;Terry Wallace Memorial Breakfast Aug 1-Nelson Park; Pride Parade 12-2 pm, August 1, Sunset Beach Festival after the parade Aug 1; Pride cruises Aug 1& 2

There's a Straight-Pride parade coming up in my town. We're all gonna go around and raise awareness about being heterosexual. We're just so proud to be straight.

We're here, we're straight, get used to it!

You sound very satisfied with yourself.

LOLOLOLOL

san fran is having the parade later today (sunday). but on saturday, they had just a lesbian parade. i'm sure what all went on. i saw that dikes on bikes were a big part of it. they were also having a big street party saturday night. 4 different music platforms.

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYONE!!!!

I think Seattle is having theirs this weekend

I love looking out my window on weekend mornings. I love seeing the sail boats and the harbor from my balcony. But then I hear some awful house and techno music playing. I knew it was the gays. I just knew it. haha. The funniest thing was that there were tons of hottie girls watching the parade along the street. Ooooh Rudey likes the ladies that come out to watch the gay pride parade.

-Rudey

The interesting thing is that many African American gays don't participate in "mainstream" gay events for similar reasons. Not so much the techno music thing, but the lack of subtlety thing.

Explain. Meaning that they aren't ready to be out in public?

The Gay Pride parade in NYC is quite flamboyant. Maybe it has something to do with this lack of subtlety. For example:
http://www.panix.com/clay/nyc/gp/gp02.jpg http://www.panix.com/~clay/nyc/gp/gp04.jpg

atlantas is today. WOOT!!!

Less so being out in public....moreso looking into a crowd and not seeing anything that represents you or your tastes.

I have a lot of support for lesbians.

have to butt in to say--- i LOVE the pink headdress--- where could i find one of those?

That's one of the funniest posts I've ever read.

I'm proud, what can i say?

-Rudey

Re: Gay Pride Parades
 

The first Pride Parade was actually a memorial/tribute to the Stonewall Riots (1:18AM Eastern Time, June 28th marks the 35 anniversary of Sylvia Rivera throwing a bottle at the cops).
From there it developed into a march for equal rights and now is a celebration of diversity. The best ones have to be Minneapolis and Denver- with so many gay and lesbian couples having families these days they've evolved Pride into a family affair.

New York's is always the last Sunday in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots.
Last year's NYC Pride Parade took forever- the first groups across the start of the route (always Dykes on Bikes and somewhere near-behind are the Pan-Asian Bisexuals) was at Noon. My segment didnt get across the start of the line until about 1PM- well after some schmoozing with Rep. Nadler (D-NY), Rep. Frank (D-MA), and the speaker of the New York City Council.
The parade comes to a full halt and silence at 2PM for rememberance of those who have died from AIDS- kind of eerie to be on the streets with over a million people and nobody is making any noise.
The last groups of the parade didnt cross the end of the 3mile parade route down near the corner of Christopher St and Gay St until after 6PM.
> About 100,000 in the parade and over a million watching.

(I was in the parade because a part-time instructor at Iowa State is on the board of directors for the AIDS Center of Queens County and I was visiting to be persuaded to teach for the NYC school system)

This year Toronto's parade didn't get the publicity it usually gets. There's nothing about it in the paper this morning and it usually makes the front page.

It's probably because it's election day today.