Pride
Moscow mayor outlaws May Day gay events
The Moscow mayor’s office said on Wednesday it would not allow gay pride marches -- previously broken up by ultra-nationalists -- to take place on this year’s May Day holiday.
Top European Mayors Invited to May’s Moscow Gay Pride
Three of Europe’s leading mayors, two of them openly gay, have been invited to attend this year’s Moscow Pride, organisers said this morning, days after a controversial St. Patrick’s Day Parade which included nudity.
2007 Rhode Island Pride Goddess Show :: April 13, 2008
The Annual Rhode Island Pride Committee’s Goddess Show was held at the Hi-Hat Club Sunday. With a full slate of local performers, the sold-out show brought the fans out to hear their favorites, have a good time, and see their friends. EDGE has the photos!
Fort Lauderdale’s Pride in the Sun
For a city with such a high percentage of gay people as Fort Lauderdale, it only makes sense that there would be two pride festivals. There’s one in June, and then another that took place recently at Holiday Park.
The June Pride Weekend has a parade and parties while this one, entitled Pride in the Sun, is mostly a fair with vendors, a hypnotist, hot dogs, hamburgers, and a whole lot of sun tan lotion.
South Florida Pride 2008 :: Pridefest :: April 12-13, 2008
Happy Pride! South Florida Pride’s indoor/outdoor festival brought 250 vendors, performers, and drag queens out to entertain the crowds at the Holiday Park/Warm Memorial Auditorium. It also included a 10th anniversary showing of portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Check out the photos from EDGE!
Youth Pride prepares for ’National Day of Silence’
Providence-based Youth Pride, Inc. (YPI) will be holding a "Break the Silence" dance on Friday, April 25, an event held at the conclusion of the "National Day of Silence." DJ Lady Fingers and DJ Cake Mix Gigglebox will appear.
Pride goes green
This week the committee announced the theme for this year’s parade, "Sustaining our community, conserving our world," and the more green-oriented theme will likely win over the critics. It has already drawn praise from the bloggers at QueerToday.com, among the most vocal critics of the 2007 theme.
No Joke! Gary Pride
NW Indiana Rainbow Days, is a two-year old LGBTQ organization with an ambitious agenda.
The Gary-based organization is planning a first-ever Pride Parade for July 7, 2008. It is scheduled for high noon on a 20-block route down Broadway, from 25th to 5th.
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.