Sunday's parade was also broadcast online, as it has been in prior years. The online flag raising had more participation than the typical in-person event, so PS Pride plans to continue live-streaming it each year. In 2020, instead of hosting the typical pride parade, PS Pride played recordings of parades from previous years on Facebook and live-streamed the annual Pride Week rainbow flag raising. Parade-goers celebrate the return of the Palm Springs Pride Parade in downtown Palm Springs, Calif., on November 7, 2021. Streetbar's founders, Dick Haskamp and Hank Morgan, created a tradition of using events to bring the LGBTQ community together to raise funds for local organizations like the LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert and the Palm Springs Animal Shelter. Streetbar, which opened in 1991, was the first gay bar in Palm Springs and is the longest-operating LGBTQ bar in the Coachella Valley. The iconic gay bar Streetbar served as the "community grand marshal" of the parade. Men in leather hawked drink specials outside downtown bars, and hundreds watched the event while eating on restaurant patios. Many other local businesses and organizations had a presence in the parade a group with Planned Parenthood received loud cheers as they marched by, while Wang's in the Desert, a Palm Springs restaurant, mounted a red-and-yellow dragon's head on the back of a truck. “But our group is high-energy even without the parade.” “It’s high-energy,” he said of the parade atmosphere after the year hiatus. Behind him, his organization had decked out a white truck with rainbow flags and balloons. Tedd Foley, the club president of a gay and lesbian square dance group in Cathedral City called Boots in Squares, wore a pair of blue butterfly wings, a nod to new beginnings and “breaking out of the cocoon” after COVID-19. We are working diligently to bring about change in this myopic and prejudicial policy which has changed several times recently, all to suit the whims or legal expediency of the self-proclaimed "Pride Parade Board".The square dance group Boots in Squares participates in the Palm Springs Pride Parade on November 7, 2021. The parade board has banned all bikers from parade! Well, that is EVERY "Gay Pride" Parade EXCEPT for Palm Springs! Who hasn't heard of the "Dykes on Bikes"? "I'd always rather ride."Īs everybody knows, motorcycles are a large part of the gay community, not only in Palm Springs, CA, but also worldwide.Įvery "Gay Pride" Parade has gay bikers in it. The motorcyle is not only fun, it is ME! I consider myself a "BIKER". I am actually permitted by law to drive a car, a truck, or a motorcycle! Oh, and I have a nice shiny truck and a nice shiny motorcycle. The State of California has licensed me to operate automobiles and motorcycles. Festival highlights include: US Bank Stage, Pride Stage at the Hyatt, theBig Top Cabaret and Palm Springs Gay Rodeo Association Country Dance.
6 p.m., November 9) Enjoy the rainbow mile in downtown Palm Springs The Pride festival is free and open to all. There is one more thing about me you should know. Two-Day Pride Festival: November 8 and 9 (11 a.m. I am a certificated (licensed) Commercial Pilot.
consulting experience with some very well known companies from Financial Software to Airlines to Manufacturing industries.
I am also a retired Silicon Valley professional with over 20 years of I.T. I live here year-round, as do nearly all of my friends.
I am a gay man, and PROUD of it! I own a home in Palm Springs. I am a 40-year-old man, and a proud citizen of Palm Springs, CA.