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Asking as a straight man that does not go to very many celebrations. Period.
Has anyone ever been to a pride parade that is like.. an actual parade? Not just a super inconveniencing lgbtq themed county fair set up in the middle of a city?
They're typically both. Also it's not that inconveniencing to drive up a different street for a couple weeks. The majority of the places closed down due to the celebrations are in the village anyway where if you live there that's just a part of life. The parades do happen but it's just over the course of one or two days. Usually one MASSIVE parade with a couple of smaller ancillary ones.
Uh, it is — but I would say that about any event that causes me to take a different route. I think the only exception for me would be protests, I hope I don't need to detail which protests.
Like I'm not going to go out of my way to stop pride events/parades. My girlfriend is bi, she's actually the only reason this is something I even think about. I think it would actually be pretty cool to see a big parade with floats and celebrations, on a weekend when I don't have to go to work.
Edit: also, the events where I live are mostly downtown — it's not contained in midtown or whatever the village equivalent in a city would be.
Better make an exception then because pride parades are deffo protests.
Ah, are they supposed to be protests? I guess I have some reading to do, I wasn't aware — I thought it was more a celebration rather than a protest.
Edit: sure did, I had no idea pride parades have their roots in protests. Learned something new, thank you.
Yes. Boston, MA Pride is an actual parade, set up many months in advance with all sorts of organizations participating with floats/banners.
Same with Seattle. It's an actual parade, but also with plenty of local buisnesses participating and various booths/etc.
That's cool, I wish that they would do that here — it'd be much better to observe a moving parade with big floats and stuff rather than it just being a line of vendors and food trucks. Though I get why it's difficult.
The pride parade in my city in Florida was an actual parade too. They had floats, banners, a bunch of LGBT friendly churches, even a band. There was also a rainbow county fair of course, but yeah the parade was a parade
That's cool, maybe I've just gone on the wrong days? I'll have to give it some more thought.
https://pride.amsterdam/en/event/canal-parade/
Literal parade... but boats!
Ok I have to avoid saying 'that's cool', but yeah pride parades seem like a ton of fun.