The GaySpeak Virtual Pride Parade!

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I’ve always enjoyed San Jose, CA pride. It’s pretty small compared to SF, but you ran into friends and acquaintances constantly. The parade though was tiny and short when I lived there in the early 00s. Also went up to SF a few times but that was just too big to enjoy. The first time I marched it was a political event somewhere in Germany, but after that they made it a party, in Cologne, which then grew exponentially in just a few years with a parade rivaling their Carnival parades. I marched, danced, worked booths for a couple of years or just went to the pride events. Here in Orlando I’ve done all that stuff, too, (blessedly pride here is in cooler October) but I’m not shedding any tears when I miss it.