NEWENGLAND

Boston, Saturday, June 8 – BostonPride, Beantown’s 32nd annual parade
     and festival. Parade, 12:00 noon. Festivalat Boston Common 1:30-6:00
Hartford, CT, Saturday, Sept. 21– Pride Festival
Hyannis, MA., Sat. July 20 – PrideFestival
New Haven, CT, Saturday, June 1 – Pride March andCelebration
Portland, ME June 12-23 – Pride Festival andParade. Festival at various
     venues,with the parade on Sunday, June 23 at noon.
Providence,RI, June 2-15 – Pride Festival and Parade. The nation’sonly
     nighttime Pride parade is onSaturday, June 15 at 8:00 p.m.
Worcester, MA Saturday, July13

ACROSS THE USA & CANADA

Albany, N.Y. – June 7-16
Albuquerque,N.M. – June 7-8
Allentown, PA. – June 23
Anchorage, AK – June 16-23
Asbury Park,N.J. – June 2
Atlanta, GA – June 28-30 (DeepSouth’s biggest Pride celebration.)
Austin, TX– June 1
Baltimore, MD – June 14-16
Birmingham,AL – June 1-9
Boise, ID – July 6-14
Buffalo,NY – June 1-2
Cedar Rapids, IA Saturday, June 8
Chicago – Sunday, June 30 (Biggest Pridecelebration in the Midwest.)
Chicago – Windy City BlackPride, July 3-7
Chico, CA – Sept. 20-22
Cincinnati– June 8-9
Cleveland – June 14-16
Columbus,OH – June 29-30
Davis, CA – Sunday, June 9
Dayton, OH – June 1-16
Des Moines,IA – Sunday, June 9
Detroit – June 1-2
EauClaire, WI – Aug. 22-25
El Paso, TX – Saturday,June 1
Erie, PA – Saturday, June 8
Flagstaff,AZ – Saturday, June 15
Gainesville, FL –Saturday, October 26
Halifax, Nova Scotia – July 14-21
Halton, Ontario – Saturday, June 8
Hamilton, Ontario June 13-16
Harrisburg,PA – July 20-27
Honolulu, HI – June 22-29
Houston, TX – June 21-29
Huntington,LI, NY – Sunday, June 9
Jacksonville, FL – Sat,Aug. 3 & Sun, Aug. 11
Jersey City, N. J. – Saturday,Aug. 24
Kansas City, MO – June 2-9
Key West,FL – June 3-9
Kitchener, Ontario – June 7-9
Knoxville, TN – June 1-8
La Crosse,WI – Aug. 16-18
Lafayette, LA – Sept. 20-22
Lansing, MI – June 14-16
London,Ontario – July 7-14
Los Angeles – ChristopherStreet West, West Hollywood, June 22-23
Los Angeles – StudioCity Pride, Sunday, October 13
Los Angeles – SouthernCalifornia Black Pride, July 4-8
Louisville, KY – Gay Dayat Kentucky Kingdom, Sunday, June 9
Medicine Hat, Alberta,Canada – Saturday, August 17
Milwaukee – June 7-9
Minneapolis – Twin Cities Pride, June 28-30
Moncton, New Brunswick – June 16-22
Montréal, Québec, Canada –Divers/Cité, July 27-August 5
     (The host city of Gay Games VII in 2006, Montréalis a definite “must visit” to experience a genuine gay holidaywith a French accent.)
Moorhead, MN – June 7-9
Nashville, TN – Music City Pride, Saturday, June 8
New Orleans, LA – Pride & Dixieland Jazz,September 28-29
New York – Sunday, June 27-30
      (The world’s oldest Pridecelebration – now in its 33rd year – in the city of Stonewall.This year’s parade will take on a patriotic theme,“America’s Pride,” to honor the LGBT heroes of the 9/11tragedy including moments of silence for the victims of 9/11 and thoselost in the AIDS epidemic.)
New York – Black Pride, August1-4
Oakland, CA – August 24-September 2
OklahomaCity – June 16-23
Olympia, WA – Saturday, June22
Omaha, NE – June 16-22
Orlando,FL – Gay Day at Walt Disney World, Saturday, June 29
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – The Pride ofCanada’s Capital, July 8-14
Palm Springs, CA – Nov.2-3
Pasadena, CA – Saturday, Sept. 14
Peoria, IL– Saturday, June 22 (Yes, gay does indeed play inPeoria!)
Philadelphia – Philly Pride, Sunday, June 9
      OutFest, Sunday, October 13
Pittsburgh – June 15-22
Pocatello,ID – August 23-25
Port Huron, MI/Sarnia, Ontario, Pride Across the Border, August 9-11
Portland, OR – June15-16
Raleigh-Durham, N.C. – Sept. 28-29
Richmond, VA – Sunday, Sept. 15
Sacramento, CA– Saturday, June 15
St. Louis – June 22-23
San Antonio, TX – Saturday, June 15
SanBernardino, CA. – Saturday, July 13
San Diego,Calif. – July 26-28
San Francisco – June 29-30
      (The undisputed world-champion Pridecelebration in terms of attendance, the only question now is: Can theCity by the Bay top last year’s record 1.1 millionturnout?)
San Francisco – Folsom Street Fair and LeatherPride, Sunday, Sept. 29
      (Think of itas a highly erotic, leather-clad Mardi Gras.)
San LuisObispo, CA – Sunday, July 14
San Jose, CA – June8-9
Santa Barbara, CA – October 11-12
Santa Cruz,CA – Sunday, June 2
Santa Rosa, CA – June 8-9
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan June 23-30
Savannah, GA– Saturday, Sept. 28
Seattle – June29-30
Southworth, WA – July 12-21
Syracuse,NY – Saturday, June 15
Tacoma, WA – Saturday,July 13
Tampa, FL – July 2-7
Topeka, KS– June 9-15
      (As always,expect hometown Rev. Fred Phelps to stage a vehement anti-gayprotest.)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada – June 24-30
      (Canada’s largest Pride celebrationclosely rivals SF’s in attendance. Last year’s drew 850,000and could top the one-million mark this year.)
Tucson, AZ– Saturday, Oct. 12
Tulsa, OK – June 2-9
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – July 27-Aug.4
Victoria, British Columbia July 1-7
Washington,D.C. June 2-9
Wilton Manors, FL – Sunday, June 23
Windsor, Ontario – June 21-28

AROUND THEWORLD

Amsterdam, Netherlands – Aug. 1-4
      (This year’s festival may betransformed into a memorial for Pim Fortuyn, the gay Dutch politicianwhose assassination last month shocked Europe.)
Bangkok,Thailand – Nov. 8-15
Berlin, Germany – June 21-22
Birmingham, England – June 1-3
Bournemouth,England – Aug. 2-4
Brisbane, Australia – June1-22
Budapest, Hungary June 27-30
Cape Town, S.Africa – Dec (TBA)
Cardiff, Wales, U.K. –Saturday, Aug. 31
Catania, Italy – Friday, June28
Cologne, Germany – EuroPride 2002, July5-7
Copenhagen, Denmark – Aug. 17-18
Derry,Northern Ireland – July (TBA)
Dublin, Ireland –June (TBA)
Frankfurt, Germany July 19-21
Glasgow,Scotland – Sunday, June 22
Hamburg, Germany –June 7-9
Helsinki, Finland – June 23-30
Jerusalem,Israel – June 6-8
      (At presstime, the Pride celebration in Jerusalem was in danger of being canceledbecause of the ongoing war between the Israelis and thePalestinians.)
Johannesburg, S. Africa – Sept. 23-28
London, England – Saturday, July 6
      (Who says there’s only one queen inJolly Olde England?)
Manila, Philippines – Saturday, June29
      (Asia’s largest Pridecelebration)
Mexico City Saturday, June 29
Milan, Italy– June 7-22
Montpellier, France – June 1-2
Munich, Germany – July 12-14
Neuchâtel, Switzerland – July 12-14
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England – Saturday, July 20
Nuremberg, Germany – Saturday, Aug. 3
Oslo,Norway – June 21-30
Padova, Italy – June 4-8
Paris – Saturday, June 29
      (Turnout is likely to be higher thanoriginally expected in celebration of the defeat of the anti-gayright-wing extremist Jean-Marie LePen in France’s presidentialelection last month.)
Porto, Portugal – Saturday, July 6
Rennes, France – June 22-29
Reykjavik,Iceland – August 9-10
Rome – June 20-29
      (This could turn into a huge protestagainst the anti-gay stance of the Vatican in the wake of the sex-abusescandal that’s rocked the Roman Catholic Church.)
Saarbrücken, Germany – July 26-28
SanJuan, PR – June 1-2
Sao Paulo, Brazil – May24-June 2
      (The largest Pridecelebration in South America)
Siegen, Germany – August 24
Stockholm, Sweden– July 31-Aug. 4
Stuttgart,Germany July 26-Aug. 4
Sydney, Australia – Gay MardiGras, March 1-2, 2003
Tijuana, Mexico – Saturday, June 8
Tokyo – September 8-9
Valletta,Malta – June 20-24
Vienna, Austria –Saturday,June 29
Zagreb, Croatia – Saturday, June 29
      (This is Croatia’s first-ever Pridecelebration – A feat utterly impossible during the Balkan War. Wecan only hope that Zagreb fares better than Belgrade, Serbia did lastyear, when a Pride celebration was brutally suppressed by anti-gay mobs.There will be no Pride celebration in Belgrade this year.)
Zürich, Switzerland – Saturday, June 29