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the O.C. during the week leading up to Saturday’s Pride Festival and Parade. With events from Fullerton to Laguna Beach each is an opportunity for the LGBT community to gather and cel- ebrate and is an important reminder to keep O.C. Pride accessible to the whole county!
SUNDAY, JUNE 19 Laguna Beach West Street Beach Kick Off Party 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Main Street Bar 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
IT’S TIME TO LIVE YOUR LIFE by joel martens
life! That’s what Orange County Pride organizers want you to know as they set out to celebrate their 8th annual festival in the county on Saturday, June 25 and their 5th anniversary at the east end of historic Downtown Santa Ana. The first O.C. Pride celebration was held in 1989,
It’s healthy advice we could all use... Live your
“We decided to transform those feelings of admi- ration, gratitude and happiness into something visual. Something creative. Something colorful. Something that vividly flaunts what it is we all feel inside!” Looks like we’re in for a Saturday filled with
under the title of Orange County Cultural Pride Festival. It’s an event remembered by many as one marred by violence and hos- tility and one that resulted in a brawl between attendees and anti-LGBT forces. Police ordered the gates locked for safety and in an effort to calm the crowd, Janet Avery, president of Orange County Cultural Pride reminded at- tendees why they were there. “We came here to celebrate,” Avery said.
friend who is not here to cel- ebrate, please get them in the mood. This is our day in the sun.” It’s another healthy dose of advice, befitting the earlier message to “Live Your Life.”
O.C.Pride has come a long
“If you have a
Pride fun and a main stage filled all day long with amazing entertainers such asWasi, Sam Tolson, Laganja Estranja and Gia Gune, Courtney Act, Ricky Rebel andBowie Jane. Rounding out Saturday’s performances
way from those early days and has evolved into a grand celebration of diversity for 2016, featuring vendors and celebrations all day and correlating events the week leading up to Saturday’s main events. Exciting changes this year are afoot as well; for the first time in its history, O.C. Pride will march down Santa Ana’s main street on Saturday from 11a.m. to 12 p.m! The parade celebrates a year of exciting changes for the LGBT community and our rights. As organizers offered,
linerSteve Grand, the singer/ songwriter who’s smash viral hit “All American Boy” took the internet by storm, thanks in part to his self-produced and self-financed video. It’s a song about a boy dealing with unrequited feelings for his straight best friend, which went from zero to a million views on YouTube in a matter of days, all without the help of a label, a manager, or an agent. (See our in-depth interview with Grand on the previous pages.) All in all, it will be a roaring
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wants you to join them in Santa Ana! Look too, for an exciting week of events throughout the county, designed to celebrate unity, diversity, equality and love in all its forms!
good time for festivalgoers and Orange County Pride
For more information and specific times for performances, or to purchase tickets for the Main Stage entertainment during the festival, go
toprideoc.com.
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MONDAY, JUNE 20 Tin Lizzie 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Costa Mesa
TUESDAY, JUNE 21 Film screening (TBA) Frida Cinema 7 to 10 p.m. Santa Ana
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 Slide Bar 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Fullerton
THURSDAY, JUNE 23 The Frat House 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Garden Grove
FRIDAY, JUNE 24 Velvet Lounge 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Santa Ana
SATURDAY, JUNE 25 Club Lucky’s Pride Afterparty 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The Yost Theatre Santa Ana
Here’s a list of the other events around
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