Square one: Where and how to hold Pride events?
6:05 PM
If you really care about this, you've probably heard by now that Seattle Out & Proud (SOAP), producers of the Pride parade and festival for the past couple of years has abandoned plans to hold a large-scale Pride festival on Sunday, June 24 at Seattle Center.
Money quote (after several self-congratulatory 'graphs):
Ray Carter is spearheading that so-far informal organizing effort. He sent a statement to volunteers stating that a public announcement of their plans for "LGBT Pride '07" would be made Monday or Tuesday.
We applaud those who recognized early on that SOAP was not the proper organization to handle this. There's not much time to get anything ready for late June, but it's only going to happen if SOAP is set to the side of the road and allowed to lick its self-inflicted wounds.
Money quote (after several self-congratulatory 'graphs):
[I]t has been concluded by all that producing a similarly scaled Pride Event at Seattle Center is not financially prudent. ...Separate discussions have reportedly been taking place for the past month or two among folks interested in holding pride-week events on Capitol Hill that would complement the separately organized QueerFest on Saturday at Volunteer Park. SOAP and its associates have been pointedly excluded from that planning process.
[N]ew discussions are taking place about where both the march and festival make the most sense this year.
Ray Carter is spearheading that so-far informal organizing effort. He sent a statement to volunteers stating that a public announcement of their plans for "LGBT Pride '07" would be made Monday or Tuesday.
We applaud those who recognized early on that SOAP was not the proper organization to handle this. There's not much time to get anything ready for late June, but it's only going to happen if SOAP is set to the side of the road and allowed to lick its self-inflicted wounds.
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