When is the gay pride parade in oklahoma
The OKC Pride Alliance Parade will be at 10am on Saturday, June 26th in downtown Oklahoma City, and The Tulsa Pride Parade will be at 6pm in the Art Deco/East Village in downtown Tulsa. We hope to celebrate pride all along the Mother Road. We are very excited to announce we are holding a Mr. This year Tulsa Pride will collaborate with OKC Pride Alliance. We’ll also have more food trucks, which means more choices of food!
Your experience at OKC Pride will be more entertaining, and it will be easier for you to walk around visiting and enjoying the vendor booths. We are giving you entertainment all three days of the festival, rather than one and a larger festival area. The closer we get to Pride weekend 2018, the more help we need. This would be your chance to get with one of the committee chairs and volunteer. We will have some never seen guest performances and a few surprises.Įvery other Thursday, OKC Pride holds their planning meetings at the Diversity Center. All ages are welcome and 15 percent of the total sales that night will be donated to OKC Pride. Eddie’s is famous for their “mouthwatering” wing’s. This year we are again excited to have The Winds House, Norman Pride, Edmond Pride, AIDS Walk, Pit Bull Rescue of Oklahoma and The Diversity Center.įurther, we have partnered with Eddie’s Bar and Grill in Edmond for a fun night of giving back to Pride and a show, Queens with Wings. Along with the honorary organization, we will also have other nonprofits in our community working our famous beer tent. Our parade Grand Marshal this year is Kaye Thomas, owner of Partners. We believe in a day when the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, and Queer communities (LGBTQ+) are globally integrated, and recognized for its contributions, and when equality and civil rights have been achieved for all, and we do that by celebrating and promoting the history, diversity and future prosperity of the LGBTQ+. OKC Pride has chosen the Q-Space, a division of Northcare to be our very first honorary organization. As part of this, we have announced a new “honorary organization” parade entry this year.
We are trying to bridge the gaps between all community organizations. We are excited to add this event to our opening week along with wine bottling at Water’s Edge Winery and bowling at Dust Bowl.īuilding community is a key aspect of OKC Pride. Discount tickets will be available to purchase from the OKC Pride’s store at the end of May. You also told us you want more family-friendly events with OKC Pride so we’re partnering with Frontier City and White Water Bay to have Pride days, June 16-25. OKC Pride values the input from our community and volunteers. So, we dug into the depths of our history and concluded, the first documented gay Pride event in Oklahoma City was a block party held in the 39 th Street District in 1977.įollowing many movements and accomplishments towards equality in Oklahoma, the first OKC Pride Parade was held in 1988 drawing an estimated 700 participants, making 2018 the 30 th anniversary of the parade. Since then, we received emails from many people that it wasn’t the 30 th year but the 40 th year. Last year OKC Pride celebrated its 30 th year anniversary.