come out with pride

If you have plans that don’t involve being downtown next Saturday, you should steer clear of the entire area. But if you don’t have plans at all, downtown…

Almost four months after a gunman walked into the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando on Latin Night and started a massacre that ended with 49 people dead and countless others injured, the City Beautiful is healing, molding itself into a different place than it was before June 12.

The Annual Come Out With Pride parade and festivities start at 4pm on Saturday at Lake Eola Park. Lots of people walking around, shows, music and a parade…

As this year’s Come Out With Pride parade wraps its bedazzled head around a commendable and monumental tenth year, we shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss what an achievement the whole event is, and what it represents. Once upon a time, there were fights about rainbow flags on downtown flagpoles, protesters screaming death wishes at parade participants, warnings of tropical storms and other natural disasters out there designed specifically for punitive treatment of same-sex couples and those who love them.