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Pride Comes to Fort Lauderdale
Pridefest Fort Lauderdale, a two-day fundraising festival featuring indoor and outdoor entertainment, will bring together local vendors and entertainment while raising awareness about the gay community.
Palm Beach Celebrates Pride
Besides just celebrating gay pride at this year’s 15th annual Pride Festival of the Palm Beaches the festival took on an activist tone as organizers tried to inform and educate people about Amendment 2, the upcoming ballot initiative that would ban gay marriage in Florida.
Penn. Mayor Officiates at Pride Commitment Ceremony
The mayor of State College, Penn., presided over the commitment ceremony of four same-sex couples on Mar. 29, to the cheers of a GLBT crowd.
Palm Beach County Prepares for Pride
Thousands of people will descend on Lake Worth noon to 6 p.m. March 29 and 30 for the 15th annual Pride Festival of the Palm Beaches organized by Compass, the gay and lesbian community center of the Palm Beaches. The event will take place at Bryant Park, 30 South Golfview Road in Lake Worth. Tickets are $7.
Paris, London, Berlin Mayors Invited to Moscow Gay Pride
Last year, Moscow authorities banned the city’s Pride celebration, and anti-gay mobs grew violent. This year, Moscow Pride would like to make the party an international affair.
Manchester Pride invites you to ’Join the Parade!’
Want to be part of the best PRIDE festival in the UK (and my favorite of all time)? Now’s your chance to be part of history, by participating in Manchester Pride for their 18th Birthday Parade...
RI Pride relocates to new digs in Providence
Rhode Island Pride recently settled into roomy new digs at 180 Allens Avenue, near Conley’s Wharf. The organization had occupied office space at 58 Seymour Street in Providence, RI for the last 10 years.
Christian protesters fined for disrupting NY gay pride event
Four Christian protesters who disrupted a gay pride festival in Elmira have been convicted of disorderly conduct.
Pride nominates HRC for Pink Brick
For the first time, an LGBT organization has been nominated for San Francisco Pride’s Pink Brick award - an award meant to recognize groups and individuals who’ve run afoul of the community or pushed for antigay measures.
Sydney celebrates 30th Gay Mardi Gras
Around 300,000 revelers cheered as a sequins-sparkling, 10,000-strong parade sashayed down inner-city streets Saturday in Sydney’s 30th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Boston Pride to host NERP
About 100 delegates from Pride committees throughout the northeast will converge on Boston for the 20th North East Regional Pride (NERP) conference Feb. 28 - March 2.
Groups Vie to Take Over Capital Pride
Several groups are under consideration to take over producing and financing Capital Pride, Washington, D.C.’s annual Pride celebration.
Manchester :: The Best PRIDE in the UK
Who’s got the best PRIDE event in the UK? That’s easy- it’s Manchester of course!
London’s Pride Celebrations Bigger in 2008
This year’s Pride London Parade and Rally will take place in central London on Saturday 5 July, and if the buzz is anything to go by, Pride London should be bigger than ever...
London’s Gay Pride Celebrations Bigger in 2008
London will again send out a message to the world through it’s annual Gay Pride that it is a diverse capital city that is a safe place for gay men and women to live or to visit.
Thousands march in Gay Pride Parade in Argentine capital
Thousands of Argentines waving rainbow flags marched in the annual Gay Pride Parade Saturday in Buenos Aires, where some said they still face discrimination in one of the most gay-friendly cities in Latin America.
2007 Outfest
The Philly GLBT community celebrated Coming Out Week with a scorching OutFest 2007 - temperatures climbed into the 80s, the Gayborhood was awash in Gay Pride colors, and EDGE caught all the action on film. Here’s our online album!
Tarrant County gittin’ ready for Pride parade
James Allen still remembers the first Tarrant County Gay Pride Week Parade.
Chicago Police Accused of Anti-Gay Actions During Pride
The Chicago Police Department, already under fire for several alleged misdeeds, is being accused of roughing up a group of lesbians and calling them anti-gay slurs.
Pride on parade in Dallas
Organizers say weather contributed to drawing a record-setting crowd to Oak Lawn Sunday for the Pride parade and festival in Lee Park.