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Pride Month 2023 will start soon. Do you have any plans or goals for it?
If my wife agrees, I plan on being dressed en femme all day at our parade. There is also an accessory street location open at night, too. It should be a safe, accepting place to try it out and there are about 5 weeks during which I can sort out my presentation.
I am unfortunately working during the local parade. Why it is on a Friday I will never know. Might try and hit up Ferndale as I know their pride is the big one around here but it is a drive.
Will probably look around and try and attend a local one or maybe try and get some friends together
Hi Harriette, I live in Crystal Lake which is not too far from Rockford. I was reading this morning about the Woodstock Il. pride fest. Events On Sunday include the annual parade, then there is a festival in the square and the streets around the square. Last year was my first time attending and it is a very well run and inclusive event. Churches in the area also help out with the programs.Hope this helps you out!
Huggs AbbeyI absolutely will be attending as many pride events as I can get to. I’ll probably go to some full en femme, but sometimes just my unique combination of feminine and masculine, depending how comfortable I am feeling at the time. I hope to meet up with some of the other LGBTQ and Non-Binary Iowa people at Des Moines pride too!
Nancy
I won’t get to all these, but here’s what I have on my calendar:
May 27 – Pride on Main in Ames, IA
June 3 – Ottumwa, IA Pride and Sioux City, IA Pride
June 10 – Capital City Pridefest, Des Moines, IA
June 24 – Ankeny, IA Pride and Ft. Dodge, IA Pride
July 8 – Cedar Rapids, IA Pride
September 30 – Ames, IA Pridefest
There is a transgender/non-binary group that occasionally meets out here. I’ve gone a couple times, the guy who runs it is great. But it’s not a regular thing, as far as a support group goes.
I do chat with LGBTQ and Non-Binary Iowa people online, and plan to meet up with some of them at Capital City Pridefest for sure, hopefully other pride events as well.
Pride events are a huge support for me. I can go to them expressing myself however I want, and feel like I fit in. I’m not an outsider, I’m just another gender non-conforming person in the LGBTQIA+ community. People accept my feminine side at pride fest events. I can’t recommend pride fest highly enough, for any CDH girls who have local events they can get to.
One of the things that is a priority for the guy who leads The Greater Palm Springs Pride organization is that it is still one of the largest free to enter Prides in the country. That means all of the entertainment is free as well as access to all of the vendors.
I forgot to mention that Cathedral City has been doing LGBT Days for a number of years. When it was the last weekend in March it was the first Pride of the year. This year it was the first weekend in March with the thought of possibly having a bit cooler weather.
Over the years, entertainers have included Martha Wash, Ultra Nate, Leslie Jordan, Lady Bunny, The Old Gays, Lance Bass, Del Shores and cast members from Sordid Lives. Plus, there is always the Bed Race and Bed Race Parade! I was a judge for the Bed Race Parade this year.
My local CD/TG support group is having a special Drag Karaoke event on June 2nd at the church where we hold our meetings. My work schedule hasn’t allowed me to attend a meeting since autumn 2021; hopefully I’ll be able to go.
There’s also two Pride parades, one on June 3rd and one on the 24th. I feel that it will be more difficult to attend those; as they are during the day and on Saturdays and I most likely won’t be able to get out of the house since my wife will be around.
I went last year to the parade and to a club event but I am not sure about this year.
Pride 2023 here is saying that insurance costs have soared as well as police service costs so they will have to cut back on the events.
Also sad but there is so much hate out there and I am concerned about my safety and may just skip the parties and go to the parade.
Alanna
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