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IMPORTANT NEWS
EXHIBITION BOOTHS SOLD OUT
SPONSORSHIPS CLOSED.
FOOD VENDORS CLOSED.
EXHIBITION TENT LOCATIONS
BOOTHS W/ELECTRICITY CLOSED.
PARADE IS
CLOSED
ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE NOW
AVAILABLE
Reinventing Gay Pride in South
Florida ... Again
In
2000, a new organization,
Pride of Greater Fort Lauderdale
decided to recreate gay
pride in Fort Lauderdale. They
would take the festival out of
the city parks and convention
center and move it into the
street, Wilton Drive to be exact
in the heart of South Florida's
gay community. They
then decided to bring back the
gay pride parade and have it
start off the festival and have
the route go through the
festival itself. Most
importantly, they decided the
festival would be free to the
public.
With an hoped-for attendance of
5,000, an amazing 7,500 showed
up for the first year event. The
Stonewall Street Festival and
Parade was born.
Through the years, the
Stonewall Street Festival and
Parade has changed and so
has the greater Fort Lauderdale
area. Wilton Manors has since
become a major LGBT community
joining West Hollywood,
California as having an
occasional LGBT majority on the
city council. Wilton Manors also
has the largest per capita LGBT
populations in the eastern
United States. Fort Lauderdale
has become a major LGBT tourist
destination ranking fourth in
the world for LGBT travel.
Finally, the Stonewall Street
Festival and Parade drew an
estimated 25,000 for the
combined events last year and is
now the largest LGBT event in
South Florida, |
2009
Stonewall Gay Pride Parade
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June 20, 2009: The tenth
annual Stonewall Parade
on Wilton Drive
celebrating gay rights
and the continuing
battle for equality.
Features the
recently-out
contemporary Christian
singer/songwriter, Ray
Boltz who now lives here
in Wilton Manors,
Florida. |
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