Strength in Colors
Nearly a million people, donning rainbow clothing, body paint and balloons, packed San Francisco’s streets for its 46th annual LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade on June 26. The event began in 1970 and serves to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots against police raids on queer spaces and to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community….
Transcending Pride in Downtown SC
The 41st annual PRIDE celebration will kick off on June 7 in downtown Santa Cruz. Forty-nine contingents of activists, artists, performers and allies plan to march to their own beat in the largest pride celebration on the Central Coast. In light of this year’s theme,…
Diversity Center Celebrates 25 Years
When Steve Weybright returned to Santa Cruz from the Vietnam War after 15 years, he found that he didn’t know anyone. Going back to the community as an older person, he said, made it hard to meet people, but the Diversity Center gave him the…
Marching Proudly Down Pacific
The grey color of the sidewalks slowly as people crowded to watch marchers paint Pacific Avenue with every color of the rainbow. Whether it was the rumbling of the Dykes on Bykes’ motorcycles or the chanting of the gender neutral Cheer San Francisco, the crowd of…