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This year’s Pride Festival
in Eugene will be held from
n<x>n to 8 p.m. July 23 at
Alton Baker Park. The
theme is “Life Is a Beach!”
Bring your swimsuit, sun
screen and sweetheart for a
day of fun in the sun. The
festivities will
include
music, entertainment, food,
a beer garden, craft and mer
chandise b<x)ths, community or
ganizations and the ever-popular
bachelor and bachelorette auction.
The suggested donation for
admittance to the Pride Festival is
$5, but no one will be turned away
for lack of funds. Volunteering is a
great way to help out and earn your
way in, and all donations and con
tributions are tax-deductible.
For more information, check
out www.eugenepride.org.
V ancouver ’ s S aturday
in the P ark P lanned
for J uly 9
The 11 th annual Saturday in
the Park, to be held from nixin to
5 p.m. July 9 at Esther Short Park in
Vancouver, Wash., will be devoted
to celebrating gay, lesbian, bisexual
and
transgender
Pride. The event will
be similar to previous
years and will include
live music and enter
tainment, informa
tion b<x)ths staffed by
many organizations
and agencies, retail
booths with various
Pride
products,
a fenced-off beer gar
den, presentation of
rhe Community Pride
Award and a variety
of guest speakers.
Saturday in the
Park 2005 will be
attended by members
of the queer and allied
communities of Van
couver, Portland and mral South
west Washington. This is a free
event.
For more information-contact
Brent Bartlin'g at 360-695-3862
or brentnorthbank@msn.com.
C entral O regonians
C elebrate P ride
Close to 100 Central Oregon
ians celebrated Gay Pride
Month at Bend’s first-ever
public Pride event June 19.
Representatives from the
Human Dignity Coalition
and Basic Rights Oregon
were on hand distributing
materials while friends and
families from the communi
ty enjoyed a potluck, games,
music and even a traditional
float down the Deschutes
River.
The event was covered
by local media, including
the kx?al television station, Central Oregonians at the first-ever Pride celebration in Bend
which made it the top story (above and right) spent the day eating, hacky-sacking, hula
during the evening news. hooping and rafting.