“(It went from) a very short parade to one of the biggest events in Long Beach,” Long Beach Pride co-president Elsa Martinez said in a Friday, July 28, interview, “that brings the community together - and has done so for all these years.” Now, 40 years after its founding, Pride has changed in more ways than just its name - but its significance to LGBTQ people and the city remains just as large. In 2020, the nonprofit changed its name to Long Beach Pride to be more inclusive of everyone within the LGBTQ community. The annual celebration traces its origins to October 1983, when Bob Crow, Judith Doyle and Marylin Barlow founded 1983 as Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Inc., the nonprofit that would organize the city’s inaugural pride parade and festival the following summer. The festival will feature life performers at multiple stages, drag shows, family-friendly and senior zones, and plenty of other entertaining and educational activities. 5-6, in Marina Green Park, while the iconic parade will travel along Ocean Boulevard on Sunday morning. The festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. The popular Long Beach Pride Festival & Parade will return to the city’s downtown this weekend - with this year’s event also celebrating the 40th anniversary of the nonprofit that started it all.
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