{"id":1691,"date":"2007-06-08T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2007\/06\/08\/%e2%80%9c10-days-of-pride%e2%80%9d-continues\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T14:21:58","slug":"10-days-of-pride-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2007\/06\/08\/10-days-of-pride-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c10 Days of Pride\u201d continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/centralalabamapride.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=70&amp;Itemid=139\" target=\"_blank\">the 28th annual GLBT celebration has been going on since June 1<\/a>, some of the larger events associated with it take place this weekend:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday &#8211; Annual Gay Pride Parade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The parade will begin at 8 p.m. with lineup starting at 6 p.m. This year&rsquo;s grand marshal is Alabama State representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhamwiki.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Patricia_Todd\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Todd<\/a>, the first openly gay person ever elected to public office in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><em>Parade route<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The parade will begin at the former Highland Avenue police precinct building (corner of Highland Avenue &amp; 14th Street South). It will continue down Highland until it reaches 20th Street South. It will then go north along 20th Street until it reaches 7th Street South.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/centralalabamapride.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=70&amp;Itemid=139\" target=\"_blank\">the official website<\/a>, all participants must have a completed, signed Parade Registration Form on file with Central Alabama Pride, Inc. before they can participate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/equalityalabama.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Equality Alabama<\/a> will also run a workshop earlier in the day entitled &quot;Language Matters&quot;. It will be held at the Avondale Library beginning at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Sunday &#8211; PRIDEFest 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slossfurnaces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sloss Furnaces<\/a> will serve as the venue for the all day festival. Gates will open at 12 p.m.; they&rsquo;ll close at 10:00 p.m.) Highlights will include vendors, live music, food, drink, a special children&rsquo;s area (supported and monitored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covenantbirmingham.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Covenant Community Church<\/a> and including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcwane.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">McWane Center<\/a>&rsquo;s 3-Ring Science Program). In addition to local entertainers (including the winners of this year&rsquo;s Gay Pride Pageants), <a href=\"http:\/\/cecepeniston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CeCe Peniston<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nemesisrising.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nemesis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiamanley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Manley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateandsarah.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nervous but excited<\/a> will be performing.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, please <a href=\"http:\/\/centralalabamapride.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=70&amp;Itemid=139\" target=\"_blank\">visit the official site<\/a> for the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2007\/06\/08\/10-days-of-pride-continues\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>While the 28th annual GLBT celebration has been going on since June 1, some of the larger events associated with it take place this weekend: Saturday &#8211; Annual Gay Pride Parade The parade will begin at 8 p.m. with lineup &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2007\/06\/08\/10-days-of-pride-continues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PdO-rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}