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Seattle Out & Proud (SOAP) is now taking online applications for their Seattle Pride 2007 parade downtown.

These are the entry fees:

• $35 for "community and non-profit groups (suggested donation)
• $500 for "local businesses" (You are considered a local business if you only have offices located in the Puget Sound area.)
• $1500 for "national businesses"

The group encourages entrants who want to help pay off the group's debts of at least $110,000 to pay more. Their website lists recent contributions to the debt payoff at $2130.



Floats can be up to 12 wide, 25 feet long, and up to 12 feet high, measured from the street to highest point.

Entries are encouraged to display their identity through a variety of visual media such as signs, banners both in front of and to the sides of the entry, balloons, flags or T-shirts so that judges and spectators can easily identify the entry.

Some of the rules:

• No articles of any kind may be thrown from the float.
• No one may enter or exit the float once the float is in motion on the Parade route.
• Trailers must be towed by an accompanying vehicle and have a turning radius of not less than 90 degrees.

The parade kicks off "at exactly 11am" at 4th and Union. It marches through the Regrade to Denny where it will disband.

Email SOAP (volunteer[at]seattlepride.org) is you would like to volunteer as crowd controller, parade monitor, or to help with check-in.

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