Pride Blog Posts

A pride for all seasons

October 29, 2009 / No Comments



You probably thought pride was over, but there’s still two left in great international cities: Rio and Atlanta. And Palm Springs is right around the corner. Take a minute to check out these final events of the season–it will be a long, cold Winter before we take over the streets of our cities again. Thank [...]

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My Pride: Corey Delp’s San Diego

July 13, 2009 / 2 Comments



Corey Delp is an events producer and popular bartender at Bourbon Street, San Diego’s “see-and-be-scene” club. Even after living in NYC, Miami, and Boston, he calls his adopted hometown a kind of “paradise.” On the eve of San Diego’s Saturday, July 18 pride celebration, he gave GayCities contributor Barbara Wilcox the lowdown on what’s become one of [...]

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My Pride photo challenge: And the winner is…

July 10, 2009 / 3 Comments



In the end, it took a fabulous, defiant image–out of more than 400 submissions–to claim the grand prize in the GayCities My Pride photo challenge: RuPaul at the mic with the U.S. capitol looming large in the background, submitted by member Billy Khuong of Virginia.
Postcard!, declared Moxy Hart, one of our judges.
I heard somewhere that we [...]

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Pride in the name of love

June 26, 2009 / No Comments



It’s not too late to check out one of the hottest New York Pride celebrations, Saturday’s Saint-at-Large Love Ball at the Nokia Theater produced in part by Vance Garrett, who told us all about it in his GayCities “MyPride” interview.
Towleroad came up with this shot from a Times Square preview with some of the performers:

More great pics [...]

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My Pride: Jon Mejia’s Seattle

June 26, 2009 / No Comments



Jon Mejia is board member of Seattle Out and Proud (SOaP), which puts on the city’s annual Pride Parade, held June 28. He talked to GayCities contributor Barbara Wilcox about fun stuff to do in Seattle during pride week–and beyond.
What was your first Pride like?
My first Pride, in Los Angeles, was a revelation of the [...]

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My Pride: San Francisco’s DJ Lee Decker

June 25, 2009 / 3 Comments



Lee Decker is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand DJs in San Francisco. His high-energy mix of progressive house, vocal house and tribal sounds have kept many a dance floor raging into the early morning hours. In addition to a weekly spot on Saturday nights at Lookout’s Social Club (one of the hottest events in the [...]

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My Pride: Chicago’s Sami Grisafe

June 24, 2009 / No Comments



Sami Grisafe is quarterback for the 2008 Eastern Conference Champion Chicago Force (of the professional Independent Women’s Football League). Unlike many of the more than 10,000 women who play the full-contact sport–mostly on boys’ youth and small-school teams, but increasingly on all-women’s squads like the IWFL’s–Sami is a veteran, having played for 15 years. Her Force [...]

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