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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Excitement is gathering successful the Tower District arsenic Fresno prepares to big the 35th Annual Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade and Festival connected Saturday. Organizers expect thousands to enactment the streets for 1 of the Central Valley’s largest and astir vibrant celebrations of the LGBTQ+ community.
The parade kicks disconnected astatine 10 a.m. and volition diagnostic astir 100 entries, including floats, performers, and assemblage groups. Bryan Esparza, President of Fresno Rainbow Pride, says the lawsuit volition showcase the vigor and unity that Pride represents.
“So time successful the Tower District, we person our parade,” said Esparza. “It starts astatine 10 successful the greeting and we person astir 100 entries successful the parade.”
The parade is expected to past astir 2 to 2 and a fractional hours. And for the archetypal clip successful the event’s history, it volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded successful some English and Spanish—thanks to a caller concern with Casita Feliz, a section LGBTQ-serving organization.
"And we’re going to denote the parade successful Spanish. So we’re going to person a Spanish and an English announcing table," helium said.
After the parade, the solemnisation volition displacement to Fresno City College, wherever the Pride Festival volition tally from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The festival volition see unrecorded music, a main stage, implicit 200 vendors, and 30 nutrient trucks and booths offering everything from section eats to handmade goods and assemblage resources.
“The amusement volition beryllium going each day,” said Esparza. “We person astir 200 vendors… and we person astir 30 nutrient trucks, nutrient booths… we’re expecting astir 20,000 radical tomorrow.”
But organizers accidental the lawsuit goes beyond conscionable entertainment.
“It’s a time that they tin observe and person a batch of joyousness and conscionable unrecorded their authentic selves,” Esparza said. “This is simply a precise harmless abstraction for members of our assemblage and for Fresno arsenic a whole.”
In a amusement of wide support, 15 section religion organizations are joining the event, with 1 religion moving a children’s play area, implicit with bounce houses.
Free shuttle work volition tally continuously passim the time betwixt the parade route, Fresno City College, and designated parking areas, making it casual for attendees to bask some parts of the event.
