Gay Pride 2011: We Want Your Photos, We Have Your Info

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Happy Pride Month, y’all! Some of you celebrated last weekend and some of you have more time to celebrate, but regardless — we’re very excited, and here’s why:

We are doing an ALL CALL FOR YOUR PRIDE PICTURES.

All you have to do is wear your Autostraddle gear and have your friend/girlfriend/favorite drag queen take a picture of you. You guys, everyone looks cute in AS. The world needs to see this phenomenon immortalized in a gallery. Fame and fortune but mostly fame await you!

Cut up your classic t-shirt just like we showed you. Wear your sticker on your bag/laptop/face. Make an entre outfit out of outdated pages from your AS calendar. Make Autostraddle signs and dress up as Riese and/or Tinkerbell. Do it.


If you want to be famous and have thousands of queer women fawning over you, send a HIGH-ish RESOLUTION picture of your Autostraddle-clad self to Grace [at] autostraddle [dot] com with the subject line “Pride Pictures.” Be sure to include the first names of the people in the photos as well as which pride you’re attending. As usual, bonus points for creative file names, and also, NO TIFFs, please.

Here Are Some Pride Festivals You Could Attend, Possibly!

This weekend was a big weekend for Pride for many of you from Boston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Iowa, Lansing, Los Angeles, San Antonio and Washington DC and so many more. But Pride remains a glorious prospect on the horizon in many other cities!

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Baltimore, Maryland: June 17th – June 19th.

Featuring Deborah Cox.

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Washington D.C/Baltimore

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Chicago, Illinois: June 24th-26th

+ Dyke March: June 25.

+ There is a lot happening at this one — Fernanda Rocha will be the Grand Marshall of the Pride Parade and Pride Fest performers include Deborah Cox, Crystal Waters and MYA.

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Chicagostraddlers

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Columbus, Ohio: June 17th-19th

+ Entertainment includes Chely Wright, Bitch, and Namoli Brennet. Also, Intern Grace will probably be there, so.

Meet up With Autostraddlers: Ohio is For Autostraddlers

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Denver, Colorado: June 18th-19th

+ With CAZWELL, Carmen Carerra from RuPaul’s Drag Race and Lori Michaels.

Meet up With Autostraddlers: Denver Area Autostraddlers

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Houston, Texas: June 18-25th

+ Pride Parade June 25.

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Texastraddle

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Montreal, Canada: August 9th-14th

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Montrealers

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London, England: June 24-July 3

+ Featuring Guilty Pleasures with Dreambears and Hot Gusset, something about a flash mob, and more acts to be announced. Also, they use the word “fortnight” a lot.

Meet up with Autostraddlers: UK & Ireland

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Nashville, TN: June 18th

+ The Nashville Pride Festival will feature Jonny McGovern, Kimberly Caldwell, and God-Des and SHe.

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New York, New York: June 15th – 26th

+ June 15th – Kick off Pride with GO! Magazine’s shin dig with the cast of The Real L Word (Bring your AS gear to that one for a number of reasons).

+ June 25th – Dyke March!

+ June 25th (3pm-11pm) – Rapture on the River: A Woman’s Dance (buy tickets here) this year will include a Wet T-Shirt Contest.

+ June 26th (12 noon step-off) – Pride Parade with Grand Marshalls Dan Savage & Terry Miller and Reverand Pat Bumgardner

Meet up with Autostraddlers: NYC Straddlers

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New Orleans, Louisiana: June 24th-26th

+ Parade starts at noon on Sunday.

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Portland, Oregon: June 17th – 19th

+With Deborah Cox and the two hot lesbians who make Kiss Kill happen.

+ Dyke March – June 18th, 5pm, North Park Blocks

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Pdx Autostraddlers

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San Diego, California: July 15-17th

+ Parade July 16. Featuring Margaret Cho, Salt-N-Pepa, God-des and She, among a bunch of others.

Meet up with Autostraddlers: San Diego Straddlers

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San Francisco, California: June 25th-26th

+ Pride Parade: June 26th — Grand marshall Chaz Bono. Also riding will be Yigit Pura, Olympia Dukakis and Armistead Maupin

+ Dyke March: June 25th, Rally in Dolores Park 3-7 pm.

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Straddling by the Bay

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Seattle, Washington: June 25th-26th

+ “An Evening with Jennifer Knapp” on June 21st.

+ June 25th Pride Fest will feature Crystal Bowersox, Thelma Houston and YOUR FAVORITE BAND BETTY.

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Seattlestraddle

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Minneapolis/St.Paul Pride: June 25th-26th

+ With DEBBIE FUCKING GIBSON.

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Twin Cities Straddlers

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Toronto, Canada: June 24th – July 3rd

+ Featuring “entertainment on eight stages” and performances of the play “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.”

+ Dyke March – July 2nd at 2pm

Meet up with Autostraddlers: Ohhh! Canada

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Vancouver, Canada: July 30th-31st

+ Parade July 31.

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          • i personally thought moose’s joke was funny. the straight man (mentioned in numerous blogs yesterday) was completely out of line by stealing a lesbian’s identity in order to obtain the privilege of posting online to a place many lesbians consider to be a safe haven. since when is identity theft okay?? especially when it involves a straight white male who already reaps the benefits of society that the lgbt community as a whole is denied. not to mention, transphobia would involve hatred towards someone who is transitioning…and as a member of the lgbt community herself, i doubt moose has any animosity towards those amazing individuals who put the t in lgbt.

          • thanks natalina. i definitely don’t and while i don’t think my comment excluded anyone, as in previous post we established that our “junk” varies and the idea was ludicrous. i just saw humor in a post asking for our pictures during a week where this idea has been heavily discussed.

  3. Ahh, to live again in a city where I don’t know every single gay person and can can count them on both hands.

    Perhaps We will have a BBQ in a backyard and call it “South Texas Pride,” and all 7 of us gays will be there and complain together how much we wish there were an actual gay bar in our city.

    I am bitter.

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  6. Anybody on Canada’s East Coast (Or close enough to get to Canada’s East Coast) Halifax Pride Week starts on July 17th, with the ever famous, dragtastic Dykes vs. Diva’s Softball game (Seriously, this is not to be missed!) and ends on July 24th with a family picnic, and Pride Drag show. The parade is on July 23, and is followed by a concert and festival. As a Halifax native living in another province, and a regular customer at more than one of the major sponsors, I always make it a point to go home for pride.

    And no, I’m not affiliate with Halifax Pride, I’m just very passionate about it!
    More details can be found at HalifaxPride.org (including pride vacation packages!)

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  8. I am so disappointed that Autostraddle didn’t even think of mentioning the 2011 Europride that took place in Rome… It was a pretty big fucking deal and even Lady Gaga attended and performed! Does you inclusiveness of European queers begin and end with England and Ireland?

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  9. I was sad about missing Pride (weekend) festivities this year – the Dyke March falls on my tomboy’s birthday and there’s a lot going on with the kidlet that takes precedence – but now I see that we’ll be in London for their Gay Pride, and that just kind of takes the bloody cake! Whee!

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  12. I guess the Chicago Dyke March will have to wait for next year– between Proud to Run and the parade, I think I’ve maxed out the number of events I can drag my straight friends to (although they’ve been great about it).

    Yeah, must make more gay friends in Chicago before next year…

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      • Actually I’m from a small town in the next county over (Vermilion) but it’s an accepted fact in my area that if you want to go anywhere or do anything fun, you have to go to C-U to do it. :D Danville may be closer, but it doesn’t really have much to recommend it anymore.

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          • It’s called Indianola. I don’t think it even qualifies as a town, maybe a village (pop 250 or thereabouts). Nearest towns are Georgetown, Ridge Farm and Catlin.

            The first one was just last year, so it’s only a recent thing. I didn’t go last year, but I’m really excited to go this year. They’re having Amasong there, which is a women’s chorus that kicks all kinds of ass, and I really really really want to hear them perform.

  17. I’m super excited for Columbus Pride. I’m walking in the parade with my place of employment/co-workers, then presumably taking off my official organization shirt in Goodale so I can be less Professional Queer and more Me Doing Me. My straight platonic life partner is coming with me, and while she’s not familiar with AS, we’re not too scary and are up for hanging out with willing straddlers.

    Also (if I may be forgiven for making a plug), if anyone wants to go out Saturday night, a lovely friend will be running/DJing a charity dance party at Circus (around 5th and North High Street), with proceeds going to our local LGBTQ center.

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  19. Chicago queers, represent!

    This’ll be my third time going. My first time was as a volunteer, on the float of the Chicago 2016 Olympics (don’t shoot me!) and I went with my sibs the year after that. Hopefully I’ll go with friends this year, it’s so uncomfortable flirting in front of my sibs.

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  21. Aw man I want to go to SF Pride soooooo bad. But it’s extremely unlikely. :\
    I’ll just spend the weekend a mere 40 minutes away pining from inside my forced closet…But at least I got to go to the Pride events my university had in April. And I can’t wait to see pictures of my fellow straddlers priding it up across the world :D

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  26. Dallas’ pride parade is September 18 because they think it will be less hot than it is now. Pretty sure it will still be like 334 degrees out though.

    Austin’s is a week earlier so apparently they also had the same idea in moving it from June to September.

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  29. This time last year I was juuust coming out of the closet and hadn’t heard of the magical magnificence we call Pride. But uh, now that I am a totally happy out lesbian but stuck in this shithole of a town, I’m very gloomy that I don’t get to go :/

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    • If you are going to college in CA, you should really try to make it to one of the big Pride events. SF pride is ridiculously awesome…like LITERALLY over ONE MILLION GAYS awesome.

      I’ve also heard LA and San Diego have rockin’ ones too :]

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      • I’m going in Oregon. I have nothing to do this summer besides a part time job, from which I can easily obtain time off, but I have nobody to go with to the San Francisco pride. I’m sure my pseudosister would go, but I don’t think she’d enjoy being dragged around to all of the super gay things I’d like to do.

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        • So bring her with you, drop her somewhere that she’ll have fun, and enjoy the festivities the way you want to. Pride is definitely more fun with friends, but it’s still overwhelmingly awesome on your own. And who knows, you might meet some cool new friends along the way. I did most of NYC Pride by myself just three weeks after moving here, and while I spent the majority of the day alone, it was still an experience I wouldn’t trade for the world.

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          • I TOTALLY second that. Pride is good to go all by yourself! And I have never gone to any Pride without meeting new friends, that’s probably my favorite part of Pride :D

          • If I were in the state I would totally go meet up with you, but alas, I’m in the OTHER bay area [Tampa] most of the year and am only gonna be in the SF bay area for the first week in July…

            So I’m stoking myself up for the St. Pete pride. It’s no 1.2 million that SF does, but almost-100,000 is nothing to sniff at IMHO.

  36. My city isn’t having Pride this year because the mayor, Linda Thompson, is a homophobe and the city is filing for bankruptsy and no one will stay in the parks and rec department long enough to take care of the permits. Can I have my own Pride? Will that count? Please let it count.

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  39. In Madrid (Spain) things are being crazy for the last weels (a part from the Spanish Revolution circa 15-M ).
    Since last Monday there is a “cazerolada” ( people with saucepans, whistles…anything can make any type of noise ) from 21h until 22.30 in downtown protesting cause the right wing want to move the celebration from Chueca ( gay + lesbian neighbourhood ) to other places. The thing is there is people who doesnt understand that in Chueca are people living and who works early in the morning ( part of them are gay ) and who don’t like to wake up smelling vomiting…

    But talking about the celebration here starts on the Wednesday the 29th ( with concerts, exhibitions, art, theatre… ) until Sunday the 3rd.
    The big parade is always the Saturday, this one starts at 18h but you never know when it will finish cause is around 20 trucks ( all type of brands getting publicity, collectives, parents asociations… ) with loud music through the heart of the city. Last year around 1 million people were enjoying the week.

    Is kind of crazy full of people from every single corner of the country and the world ( last year Kylie Minogue was singing as the end of the parade at 1 AM in for free.

    If you are thinking about to come just get enough water and confortable clothes if you don’t want to dye cause the heat.

    Wow that was a lot but i hope you can get the pic from future trips to Spain.

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      • Una razón más para abandonar ese país ( which one?) y venir a España? Hehe

        I am agree with you but not all is “fiesta” here, we work too !!!

        What is a pitty is all the foreing students who lose the oportunity of cultural and historical life just to have 24 hours “fiesta” ( getting drunk, passing out … )

        Thank to the godess there is other people who comes to learn and live and some of them decide to stay here for living and if you are lucky and find love to get married.

        All the best for NY in the next Senate votes for lesbian and gay marriage.

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